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A spatial analysis of youth livelihoods and rural transformation in Ghana

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  • Diao, Xinshen
  • Silver, Jed

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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).

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  • Diao, Xinshen & Silver, Jed, 2017. "A spatial analysis of youth livelihoods and rural transformation in Ghana," GSSP policy notes 12, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    1. Diao, Xinshen & Fang, Peixun & Magalhaes, Eduardo & Pahl, Stefan & Silver, Jed, 2017. "Cities and rural transformation: A spatial analysis of rural youth livelihoods in Ghana," IFPRI discussion papers 1599, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    2. Nana Akua Anyidoho & Jennifer Leavy & Kwadwo Asenso‐Okyere, 2012. "Perceptions and Aspirations: A Case Study of Young People in Ghana's Cocoa Sector," IDS Bulletin, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 43(6), pages 20-32, November.
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    GHANA; WEST AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA; AFRICA; urbanization; youth; employment; off farm employment; nonfarm income; livelihoods; youth;
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