Structural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Tác giả: Gildas Deudibe
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 581.96 Specific topics in natural history of plants
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 308459
• Chủ đề: 1. AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT; 2. LABOR MOBILITY; 3. POVERTY; 4. POVERTY REDUCTION; 5. STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION

Tóm tắt

 Economic development is typically accompanied by the movement of labor from agriculture to the non-agricultural sector, a pattern commonly referred to as structural transformation. This note aims to better understand the ongoing structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that: (i) the structural transformation is occurring more slowly, and is much less variable across countries, than prevailing estimates suggest
  (ii) there is a weak relationship between initial agricultural employment shares and the pace of transformation, suggesting little convergence across regions
  and (iii) movement out of agricultural employment is clearly but only modestly correlated with poverty reduction.