Author: Bruce Lee MelvinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Rural Youth
Author: Bruce Lee MelvinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Rural Youth
Author: Bruce Lee MelvinRural Youth
Author: Bruce Lee MelvinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Youth and Jobs in Rural Africa
Author: Valerie MuellerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192587315
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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.
Research Monograph
Author: Agricultural Economics Bibliography
Author: Rural Youth in Crisis
Author: Lee G. BurchinalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adolescence
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Working with Rural Youth
Author: Edmund de Schweinitz BrunnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Research Monograph (United States. Work Projects Administration. Division of Social Research).
Author: Expert Meeting "Rural Youth Aged 15-17": Documented results
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
This document features all problem statements and recommendations emerged during the Expert Meeting "Addressing the challenges faced by rural youth aged 15 to 17 in preparing for and accessing decent work", which took place in October 2016, in FAO HQs. The aim of the document is to help FAO and other stakeholders design interventions to facilitate skills development and generation of decent rural employment opportunities for youth aged 15-17, in the context of sustainable rural transformations.