Africa's rural youth in the global context
Governments 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 coup...
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| author | Mueller, Valerie Thurlow, James Rosenbach, Gracie Masias, Ian |
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| description | Governments 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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| spelling | CGSpace1471092025-11-06T04:10:36Z Africa's rural youth in the global context Mueller, Valerie Thurlow, James Rosenbach, Gracie Masias, Ian rural youth youth employment employment urbanization youth agricultural transformation migration agricultural productivity governance Governments 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. 2019-11-13 2024-06-21T09:11:20Z 2024-06-21T09:11:20Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147109 en https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848059.003.0001 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896296855 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134916 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Oxford University Press Mueller, 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 |
| spellingShingle | rural youth youth employment employment urbanization youth agricultural transformation migration agricultural productivity governance Mueller, Valerie Thurlow, James Rosenbach, Gracie Masias, Ian Africa's rural youth in the global context |
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| title_short | Africa's rural youth in the global context |
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| topic | rural youth youth employment employment urbanization youth agricultural transformation migration agricultural productivity governance |
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