• DOI:10.1080/02604027.2014.894868
Corpus ID: 53051943

Explosive Population Growth in Tropical Africa: Crucial Omission in Development Forecasts—Emerging Risks and Way Out

@article{Zinkina2014ExplosivePG,
  title={Explosive Population Growth in Tropical Africa: Crucial Omission in Development Forecasts—Emerging Risks and Way Out},
  author={J. Zinkina and A. Korotayev},
  journal={World Futures},
  year={2014},
  volume={70},
  pages={120 - 139}
}

• J. Zinkina, A. Korotayev
• Published 2014
• Economics
• World Futures

Our article draws attention to a crucial factor frequently omitted from the global development agenda, namely the explosive population growth inevitably expected in Tropical Africa in the nearest decades as a result of the region's laggardness in fertility transition. Population doubling (or even tripling) in the next decades can seriously undermine the development prospects of Tropical African countries and lead to sociopolitical destabilization or even large-scale violent conflicts with… Expand

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