Urbanization, Gender and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Eshiet, Idongesit

doi:10.18848/1833-1882/cgp/v03i02/52516

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“…Based on the World Bank data on fertility, Nigeria and South Africa rank 8 th and 86 th among 200 countries. Although the magnitude varies between Nigeria and South Africa, substantial proportion of urban dwellers in both countries are poor and urban poverty has been worsened by the flawed urbanization process (Eshiet, 2008;Smit et al, 2017). Due to struggle and desperation for survival, rural dwellers unabatedly move to the urban centers, most of whom are illiterate or semi-illiterate.…”

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A Comparative Assessment of the Urbanization – Fertility Nexus in Most Urbanized Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

Jemiluyi

Jeke

2023

Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business

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There is a near-consensus in the literature that urbanization is incompatible with large family size owing to factors such as high cost of urban living, opportunity cost of having children in urban centers and increasing awareness of benefits of small family size. However, a cursory glance at the data on sub-Saharan Africa cast doubt on the incompatibility of urbanization with high fertility rate. Hence, this paper investigates the urbanization-fertility nexus in the two most urbanized countries of SSA – Nigeria and South Africa. Exploiting time series data for both countries within a Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) framework, the incompatibility hypothesis is refuted in both countries. Specifically, the analysis suggests that in Nigeria and South Africa, increasing degree of urbanization is positively related with fertility rate with the magnitude of the relationship being higher in Nigeria than South Africa. These findings imply that policies aimed at improving urbanization process and reducing fertility rates are crucial in both countries.

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Section: Fully Modified Ols (Fmols) Estimation and Discussion Of Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comparative Assessment of the Urbanization – Fertility Nexus in Most Urbanized Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

Jemiluyi

Jeke

2023

Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business

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“…In this colonial model, cities and spaces of production were male, and homelands and rural areas were female (Achebe and Robertson, 2019; Eshiet, 2008). The segregationist model divided the economy into two complementary spatial realms.…”

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“…In this model, where men with work permits could live or have access to work in the cities, women’s access to the city was predominantly through their relation to men—for example, providing domestic or sexual service to men—an access dependency that positioned women in subordinate positions and often subjected them to violence (Barnes, 1999; Hansen, 1984). Such segregation in sites of production and social reproduction by gendering of space was not unique to the apartheid moment in South Africa (Achebe and Robertson, 2019; Eshiet, 2008).…”

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Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development

Miraftab,

Huq

2024

Environ Plan D

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Feminist social reproduction scholarship has shown how reproductive labor is critical in understanding the evolving dynamics of global capitalism. However, more work is needed to explicate the spatial dimension of this relationship to understand the various modalities through which social reproduction is enrolled in capitalist city-making processes and how these modalities are contested. Drawing on observations from multiple sites ranging from cities in the US to Mexico, we offer three examples to highlight strategies capitalist urban development uses to make care work invisible and marginal: bantustanization, gentrification, and informalization. In light of these spatial strategies that co-opt social reproduction in capitalist accumulation projects, we aspire to rethink the work of care in urban development and the possibilities to decouple it from the drive for profits through cross-sectoral coalition building and solidarity.

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Urbanization, Gender and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

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A Comparative Assessment of the Urbanization – Fertility Nexus in Most Urbanized Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

A Comparative Assessment of the Urbanization – Fertility Nexus in Most Urbanized Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

Urbanizing social reproduction: (Re)thinking the politics of care in capitalist urban development

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