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Decent Rural Employment, Productivity Effects and Poverty Reduction in sub-Saharan Africa

Year of publication 2016

Pages 39 p.

Author Habtamu Yesigat Ayenew; Elisenda Estruch; Johannes Sauer; Getachew Abate-Kassa; Lena Schickramm; Peter Wobst

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-109115-9

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Promoting decent rural employment, by creating new jobs in rural areas and upgrading the existing ones, could be one of the most efficient pathways to reduce rural poverty. This paper systematically investigates the impact of decent rural employment on agricultural production efficiency in sub-Saharan African countries, taking Ethiopia and Tanzania as case countries. The analysis applies an output-oriented distance function approach with an estimation procedure that accounts for different techn ological, demographic, socio-economic, institutional and decent rural employment indicators. Data of the most recent round of Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) for the two countries are used, and a set of indicators are derived to proxy core dimensions of decent rural employment. The findings of our analysis show that decent rural employment contributes to agricultural production efficiency.

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