Policies And Projects For Rural Employment Promotion In Africa
Download Policies And Projects For Rural Employment Promotion In Africa full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Policies And Projects For Rural Employment Promotion In Africa ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Youth and Jobs in Rural Africa
Author | : Valerie Mueller |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0192587315 |
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Sub-Saharan Africa's rural population is growing rapidly, and more young people are entering the labour market every year. This raises serious policy questions. Can rural economies absorb enough job seekers? Could better-educated youth transform Africa's rural economies by adopting new technologies and starting businesses? Are policymakers responding to the youth employment challenge? Or will there be widespread unemployment, social instability, and an exodus to cities and abroad? Youth and Jobs in Rural Africa: Beyond Stylized Facts uses survey data to build a nuanced understanding of the constraints and opportunities facing rural youth in Africa. Addressing the questions of Africa's rural youth is currently hampered by major gaps in our knowledge and stylized facts from cross-country trends or studies that do not focus on the core issues. Youth and Jobs in Rural Africa takes a different approach, drawing on household and firm surveys from selected African countries with an explicit focus on rural youth. It argues that a balance between alarm and optimism is warranted, and that Africa's "youth bulge" is not an unprecedented challenge. Jobs in rural areas are limited, but agriculture is transforming and youth are participating, adopting new technologies and running businesses. Governments have adopted youth employment as a priority, but policies often do not address the specific needs of rural populations. Youth and Jobs in Rural Africa emphasizes that by going beyond stylized facts and drawing on more granular analysis, we can design effective policies to turn Africa's youth problem into an opportunity for rural transformation.
Promotion of Rural Employment for Poverty Reduction
Author | : |
Publisher | : International Labour Organization |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Employment in foreign countries |
ISBN | : 9789221194866 |
This report adopts a decent work perspective to approach the challenge of promoting employment and reducing poverty in rural areas by examining issues of employment, social protection, rights and social dialogue in rural areas in an integrated way.
Rural Development
Author | : International Labour Office |
Publisher | : International Labour Organization |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Developing countries |
ISBN | : 9789221064510 |
Entries in English and various other languages.
Employment Creation Policies and Strategies
Author | : Laurel Dryden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
970 citations from ILO's LABORDOC and LABORINFO databases.
Population and Development Projects in Africa
Author | : International Geographical Union. Commission on Population Geography |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1985-10-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0521305276 |
Articles, comparison of the impact of development projects on population dynamics and rural development trends in Sudan and other African countries - discusses rural urban disparity, social implications of internal migration and deliberate rural population geographic distribution, land settlement schemes to increase self reliance among refugees and nomads, forced population removals under Apartheid, etc.; examines changing agrarian structures and labour demand in response to drought vs. Increased water supply. Bibliography, graphs.
Youth Employment Programs in Ghana
Author | : Christabel Dadzie |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2020-09-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1464815798 |
Unemployment and underemployment are global development challenges. The situation in Ghana is no different. In 2016, it was projected that, given the country’s growing youth population, 300,000 new jobs would need to be created each year to absorb the increasing numbers of unemployed young people. Yet the employment structure of the Ghanaian economy has not changed much from several decades ago. Most jobs are low skill, requiring limited cognitive or technology know-how, reflected in low earnings and work of lower quality. An additional challenge for Ghana is the need to create access to an adequate number of high-quality, productive jobs. This report seeks to increase knowledge about Ghana’s job landscape and youth employment programs to assist policy makers and key stakeholders in identifying ways to improve the effectiveness of these programs and strengthen coordination among major stakeholders. Focused, strategic, short- to medium-term and long-term responses are required to address current unemployment and underemployment challenges. Effective coordination and synergies among youth employment programs are needed to avoid duplication of effort while the country’s economic structure transforms. Effective private sector participation in skills development and employment programs is recommended. The report posits interventions in five priority areas that are not new but could potentially make an impact through scaling up: (1) agriculture and agribusiness, (2) apprenticeship (skills training), (3) entrepreneurship, (4) high-yielding areas (renewable energy†“solar, construction, tourism, sports, and green jobs), and (5) preemployment support services. Finally, with the fast-changing nature of work due to technology and artificial intelligence, Ghana needs to develop an education and training system that is versatile and helps young people to adapt and thrive in the twenty-first century world of work.
Employment Policies in Developing Countries
Author | : J. Mouly |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2022-08-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1000648818 |
First published in 1974, Employment Policies in Developing Countries is an attempt to take stock of experience that has been acquired in a number of developing countries in matters relating to employment promotion. It begins with a discussion of the nature of the employment objective, its role in the development process and with some attempt to quantify the dimensions of the problem. In Part Two employment promotion measures are examined in relation to each of the major economic sectors, while Part Three is concerned with vocational training, migration, and demographic policies. Finally, some suggestions are made as to how developing countries might define employment goals and formulate programmes for their attainment. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of economics, labour economics and public policy.