 A spatial analysis of youth livelihoods and rural transformation in GhanaXinshen Diao and Jed Silver No 12, GSSP policy notes from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Abstract: Ghana’s population is becoming younger and increasingly urbanized – by 2010, over half the population lived in urban settlements of more than 5,000 people – raising concerns among policy makers regarding the location and types of jobs required to employ the youth. The slow creation of for-mal urban jobs has particularly strong implications for young people entering the labor force: they are more educated than the older generation, with greater aspirations for non-farm employment and urban lifestyles (Anyidoho, Leavy, and Asenso-Okyere 2012). Without rapid industrialization to create more formal manufacturing and other non-agricultural jobs, youth in Ghana who leave the agricultural sector are increasingly likely to resort to informal services in both rural and urban areas. While much youth-related research has focused on changes in youth employment and livelihoods through rural-urban migration, a re-cent IFPRI Discussion Paper focuses on youth in the rural non-farm economy (Diao et al. 2017). Keywords: nonfarm income; employment; urbanization; youth; livelihoods; off-farm employment; Ghana; Africa; Western Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fpr:gssppn:12 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in GSSP policy notes from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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