Policy and Strategic Priorities for Egypt to Reap its Demographic Dividend

• Tác giả: Sameh El-Saharty
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 962 Egypt and Sudan
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2023
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 309543
• Chủ đề: 1. FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION; 2. GIRLS EDUCATION; 3. HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT; 4. MARRIAGE AGE REFORM; 5. SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY

Tóm tắt

 Egypt's population program began in the early 1970s and was very successful in bringing down the country's total fertility rate (TFR), the mean number of children a woman will have by age 50. Key investments in reproductive health and family planning (FP), as well as women's empowerment, contributed to an impressive decline in the country's TFR from 4.5 to 3.0 between 1988 and 2008. Egypt's population will continue to grow in the foreseeable future. For Egypt to reap its demographic dividend, the authors present six policy and strategic priorities that - if well implemented - should yield the greatest reduction in fertility. The six priorities are: increasing the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) - the central priority
  reducing school dropouts
  increasing the female labor force participation rate (LFPR)
  delaying age of marriage
  leveraging social protection programs
  and improving the governance of the population program.