On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa
By Christopher B. Barrett, L. Christiaensen, Megan Sheahan, A. Shimeles. 2017
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From 2000 to 2014, per capita gross domestic product in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35 percent in real terms, doubling in some countries. Such progress happened while agricultural productivity growth remained low in the aggregate, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was steady but discouragingly slow. This paper argues that ending extreme poverty will require structural change in agriculture, and in rural African economies more broadly. Drawing on a range of recent research, the paper outlines broad priority areas for policy actions to accelerate productivity and initiate structural change in the agriculture sector and the rural nonfarm economy.
Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Revisiting the Farm Size‐Productivity Relationship Based on a Relatively Wide Range of Farm Sizes: Evidence from Kenya (2019, unknown): “…future relationships between farm size and productivity in much of Sub-Saharan Africa where the opportunity cost of family labor may be rising in response to rising real per capita incomes and a declining share of the labor force engaged in farming (Barrett et al. 2017; Yeboah and Jayne 2018).”
- Africa’s Unfolding Economic Transformation (2018, background): “The share of people in SSA living on less than $1.90 a day declined from 54 per cent in 1990 to 41 per cent in 2013 (Barrett et al., 2017).”