{"id":32629,"date":"2011-01-29T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32629"},"modified":"2013-11-15T21:54:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T02:54:30","slug":"demographic-transitions-and-ending-poverty-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/29\/demographic-transitions-and-ending-poverty-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographic Transitions and Ending Poverty in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/Capture20.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32633\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/Capture20.jpg\" width=\"483\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the first five minutes of the clip below, economist Jeffrey Sachs explains to Dalton Conley that ending poverty in Africa requires a demographic transition, one where we move from high fertility and high mortality to low fertility and low mortality.<\/p>\n<p>How to encourage such a transition?<\/p>\n<p>1. Bring down mortality with advanced medicine. Declines in childhood mortality lead families to choose to have fewer children (&#8217;cause they don&#8217;t have to).<\/p>\n<p>2. Make sure girls go and stay in school; they&#8217;ll get married later, and have less babies.<\/p>\n<p>3. Provide free contraceptive services and family planning education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vN4BhAHCKSw\" height=\"390\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Also see Dr. Sachs explain <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/11\/20\/african-economic-development-constraint-and-possibility\/\" target=\"_self\">why Africa ended up so poor in the first place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first five minutes of the clip below, economist Jeffrey Sachs explains to Dalton Conley that ending poverty in Africa requires a demographic transition, one where we move from high fertility and high mortality to low fertility and low mortality. How to encourage such a transition? 1. Bring down mortality with advanced medicine. 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