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1. Introduction and organization / Clifford O. Odimegwu and John Kekovole -- 2. Examining the accuracy of age-sex data : an evaluation of Sub-Saharan African population censuses / Chuks J. Mba -- 3. Analysis of mortality using census and household data : a practical Bayesian multilevel spatial modelling approach / Lawrence Kazembe and N.B. Kandala -- 4. Child health and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa : trends, causes and forecasts / Yohannes Kinfu, Collins Opiyo and Marilyn Wamukoya -- 5. Indirect estimation of levels of adult mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa / Steve Ayo Adebowale and Sunday Adepoju Adedini -- 6. Fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from census data / Sunday Adepoju Adedini -- 7. Nuptiality patterns and differentials in Sub-Saharan Africa : analysis of African census data / Gideon Rutaremwa -- 8. Population distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa : internal and international migrations in Sub-Saharan Africa / Akanni Akinyemi and Sunday Omoyeni -- 9. Demography of labour force in Sub-Saharan African censuses / Clifford O. Odimegwu -- 10. The dynamics of household structure in Sub-Saharan Africa / Latifat D.G. Ibisomi and Nicole De Wet -- 11. Sub-Saharan African children and adolescents : economic gain or burden? / Onipede Wusu and Emmanuel Olagunju Amoo -- 12. Orphaned children in Sub-Saharan Africa : what can we learn from census data? / Bruno Masquelier and Abdramane B. Soura -- 13. Profiling the elderly : understanding recent trends in acceleration of Sub-Saharan African population aging / Henry Victor Doctor -- 14. Sex profile in education and educational attainment in Sub-Saharan Africa / Serai Daniel Rakgoasi -- 15. Living arrangement of children in Sub-Saharan Africa and their implications on schooling / Esther W. Dungumaro -- 16. Armed conflict and demographic outcomes in Mozambique and Rwanda : what can censuses tell us? / Carlos Arnaldo -- 17. Population policies in Sub-Saharan Africa : evolution, achievements and challenges / John Kekovole and Clifford O. Odimegwu.

There is significant room to improve public investment efficiency in sub-Saharan Africa. Investment in sub-Saharan African countries is lagging vis-a-vis peers such as emerging and developing Asia as well as Latin America and the Caribbean, and the region's infrastructure is perceived as being of relatively low quality. Improving the efficiency of sizable investment programs in the region could contribute to more solid economic growth and help achieve desired social priorities and development goals. Results point to some variability in public investment efficiency within the region. Comparing efficiency scores across country groups suggests that investment efficiency in sub-Saharan African oil exporters tends to be lower than in sub-Saharan African non-resource-intensive countries. Additionally, countries in East African Community (EAC) perform better than those in Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) and West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). Stronger institutions could foster more efficient public investment. The regression results in this paper show a positive correlation between public investment efficiency and the quality of institutions, suggesting that devel-oping stronger institutions in sub-Saharan Africa could lead to a significant improvement in investment efficiency. This is particularly relevant for coun-tries with weak institutional quality, where governments may use capital spending as a vehicle for rent-seeking, leading to inefficient spending. Given the current drive for scaling up investment in sub-Saharan Africa, the task of improving institutions quickly should become a priority

Many writers and political commentators erroneously consider the sub-Saharan region as a homogeneous region and as such talk of an African democracy. This article has come out with various patterns that can be observed today across the sub-Saharan region. The democratic snapshots taken show variants emanating from the 4 sub-regions, a states colonial history, the possession of oil, states suffering sanctions and the longevity of the president. Two democratic indexes Freedom House and Mo Ibrahim Index of Governance form the bases for the measurement of democracy in these states. In the majority of cases, both indexes have somehow given the same outlook of a countrys democracy thereby reinforcing the conclusions drawn in this article. In order to proceed to the democratic patterns of these states, prior analyses of the decolonization and the struggle for influence by the Superpowers in the sub-Saharan region was done. These earlier dynamics help us to understand the present democratic patterns better.

The aim of this paper is to identify the robustness of the determinants of FDI in sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1985 to 2012. This is done through the use of a linear dynamic panel model, estimated by the Bayesian Averaging of Maximum Likelihood Estimates (BAMLE) developed by Moral Benito (2012). The empirical analysis show the following key results: (i) natural resources and market size are the most robust determinants; (ii) inflation, infrastructure, human capital and trade openness are weak robust; (iii) corruption and political instability are very less robust determinants.

Among populations that value high fertility, marital practices often play important roles in regulating fertility. This article interprets ethnographic and demographic data to examine changes in contemporary African marriage. It shows that female education exacerbates inequities between de facto polygynous women who previously would have lived together, shared household resources, and acknowledged each other as cowives. These new forms of polygyny, however, hold an important key to explaining why polygyny and high fertility still proliferate. Men sustain the costs of polygyny and of high fertility in large part by marginalizing low-status women, usually those with the least education, as outside wives and their children as outside children.

While rates of socially recognized polygyny may be declining in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, de facto polygyny continues through informal or ephemeral unions. Though analytically ambiguous, these new forms of marriage hold an important key to explaining why polygyny & high fertility still proliferate. Here, it is argued that educated men are caught in a crunch between increasing economic problems & efforts to advance within the ranks of the elite. They respond less by decreasing their biological fertility or numbers of conjugal partners than by constricting the range of wives & children whom they are willing to recognize as legitimate. Unrecognized women, usually those with the least education or access to wealth & power, become "outside" wives & their children "outside" children. Female education, though it clearly benefits educated women, therefore erodes the welfare of uneducated women, by exacerbating inequities among de facto polygynous women who previously would have lived together, shared household resources, & acknowledged each other as co-wives. AA