Chapter 9 on Senegal pays particular attention to international migration and whether young migrants are contributing to rural transformation in their home country.

Chapter 10 concludes by summarizing the major findings and discusses their implications for youth employment and inclusive growth in rural Africa.

Chapter 6 addresses Malawi’s weak agricultural transformation, and asks if rural households, particularly youth, are engaging in multiple forms of employment that may not be adequately reflected in national data.

Chapter 2 uses new household survey data to investigate youth migration patterns in four African countries, paying particular attention to the effect of land scarcity on young people’s decision to migrate to urban centres.

Chapter 7 reflects Ghana’s later stage of development by focusing on the link between urban development and the livelihoods available to rural youth living close to cities or towns.

Chapter 3 reviews national policies in 13 African countries, and uses a novel approach to classify policies according to the employment constraints they address.

Chapter 4 examines whether African youth are more politically engaged than their older counterparts, and to what extent their demands for political action are motivated by concerns about jobs and unemployment.

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 populat

Uttar Pradesh (UP) is the most populous state with the highest burden of undernutrition in India.

The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) has been used to estimate the impact of scaling up intervention coverage on undernutrition and mortality.

This chapter re-examines Asia’s agricultural and rural transformations in the context of economy-wide structural change.

Interaction within mothers’ social networks can theoretically diffuse messages from interventions and campaigns into norms and practices for infant and young child feeding (IYCF).

As in most of Africa, agricultural mechanization in Ghana has been slow to develop, either in the form of animal or tractor power.

This final chapter pulls together the main findings of the book, highlights future challenges and opportunities for Ghana, and provides some guidance on the kinds of strategic changes that might help the country’s efforts towards more sustained st

This chapter examines past patterns of public spending on agriculture in Ghana, and asks whether Ghana has invested enough resources in agriculture and how the patterns of investment in the sector have impacted agricultural productivity growth.

This chapter examines and compares four important but different types of value chains in Ghana: two export crops—cocoa and pineapples, and two import-substitution crops—rice and tomatoes.

The future sustainability of the current patterns of agricultural growth is constrained by the availability of remaining virgin and fallow land for future expansion of the cropped area.

Why have African economies developed in this way and why has industrialization been so difficult to achieve?