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Rural Employment in Africa: Trends and Challenges
- Source :
- Annual Review of Resource Economics. 14:267-289
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Annual Reviews, 2022.
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Abstract
- Africa's rural population continues to expand rapidly, and labor productivity in agriculture and many rural-off farm activities remains low. This review uses the lens of a dual economy and the associated patterns of agricultural, rural, and structural transformation to review the evolution of Africa's rural employment and its inclusiveness. Many African countries still find themselves in an early stage of the agricultural and rural transformation. Given smaller sectoral productivity gaps than commonly assumed, greater size effects, and larger spillovers, investment in agriculture and the rural off-farm economy remains warranted to broker the transition to more and more productive rural employment. The key policy questions thus become how best to invest in the agri-food system (on and increasingly also off the farm) and how best to generate demand for nonagricultural goods and services that rural households can competitively produce. Informing these choices continues to present a major research agenda, with digital technologies, the imperative of greening, and intra-African liberalization raising many unarticulated and undocumented opportunities and challenges.
- Subjects :
- Economics and Econometrics
Economics
Environmental Studies
Social Sciences
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
dual economy
FARM
decent work
youth employment
Business & Economics
gender
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY EVIDENCE
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
GENDER-DIFFERENCES
Science & Technology
ECONOMIC-GROWTH
LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
Agriculture
GAP
POVERTY REDUCTION
STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION
JOB-SATISFACTION
Agricultural Economics & Policy
rural migration
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
productive employment
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19411359 and 19411340
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annual Review of Resource Economics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....854d4a6e49ffa68565cbab8e0d78cd52