Africa's rural youth in the global context

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dc.creatorMueller, Valerie
dc.creatorThurlow, James
dc.creatorRosenbach, Gracie
dc.creatorMasias, Ian
dc.date2019-11-13
dc.date2024-06-21T09:11:20Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:11:20Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:26:28Z
dc.descriptionGovernments in Sub-Saharan Africa are under enormous pressure to create more and better jobs for the region’s young and rapidly growing population.1 Africa is undergoing a ‘youth bulge’ in which the share of young people in the working age population is peaking due to past declines in mortality coupled with persistently high fertility (Canning, Raja, and Yazbeck 2015). This demographic transition has created a sense of urgency, and even anxiety, within national governments and the international development community (Resnick and Thurlow 2015). With the advent of the Sustainable Development Goals (UNDESA 2016), most policies and strategies in Africa today focus on promoting ‘inclusive growth’, which means that the population, especially the poor, should not only benefit from, but also participate in, the development process. This has made job creation a major policy objective, alongside the more traditional goals of accelerating economic growth and reducing poverty and hunger.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147109
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/104455
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848059.003.0001
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896296855
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134916
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceMueller, Valerie; Thurlow, James; Rosenbach, Gracie; and Masias, Ian. 2019. Africa's rural youth in the global context. In Youth and jobs in rural Africa: Beyond stylized facts. Mueller, Valerie; and Thurlow, James (Eds.) Chapter 1, Pp. 1-24. New York, NY: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Oxford University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147109
dc.subjectrural youth
dc.subjectyouth employment
dc.subjectemployment
dc.subjecturbanization
dc.subjectyouth
dc.subjectagricultural transformation
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectagricultural productivity
dc.subjectgovernance
dc.titleAfrica's rural youth in the global context
dc.typeBook Chapter

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