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Revisiting poverty trends and the role of social protection systems in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty in Africa has been as difficult as predicting the path of the pandemic, mainly due to data limitations.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) risks rolling back many of the efforts and global successes recorded in reducing poverty and food insecurity.
Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania
Institutionalized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs may affect pre-existing, informal safety nets such as inter-household transfers and trust among community members.
Telescoping Error in Recalled Food Consumption: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Ethiopia
Respondent fatigue reduces dietary diversity scores reported from mobile phone surveys in Ethiopia during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Background: The computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) has been used extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the effects of respondent fatigue during these interviews on responses to questions about diet are unknown.
Differences in world market participation and access to value chain technologies have resulted in uneven experiences across countries. In this paper, we explore their impact on prices in the value chain, using the example of Ethiopia and Uganda.
Public investment choices by local and central governments
In rural Ethiopia, devolving public resource allocation to local governments improved delivery on central government priorities but not on citizens’ priorities.
The share of working-age young people in Africa south of the Sahara has risen due to past declines in mortality coupled with high fertility.
Chapter 8 combine household and firm level analysis for Tanzania to examine what determines the success of rural nonfarm enterprises, including the role of young entrepreneurs.
Rural youth and employment in Ethiopia
Chapter 5 focuses on Ethiopia’s land constraints and asks if this is driving youth off the farm and into the rural nonfarm economy.
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 3 reviews national policies in 13 African countries, and uses a novel approach to classify policies according to the employment constraints they address.
Troublemakers, bystanders, and pathbreakers: The political participation of African youth
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.
Africa's rural youth in the global context
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