Fertility Transition: Is sub-Saharan Africa Different?

Population and Development Review

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 153-168

  Bongaarts, John ^a   Casterline, John ^b  

^a Distinguished Scholar Population Council   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; FERTILITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84874157852     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00557.x     Document Type: Article

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