Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa
By J. Page, A. Shimeles. 2014
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type="main" xml:lang="en"> Growth in Africa is weakly linked to poverty reduction. The reason is that Africa has failed to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation—the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors—has not featured in Africa's post-1995 growth story. As a result, the region's fastest growing economies have the least responsiveness of employment and poverty to growth. Development aid is partly responsible. Across Africa more aid went to countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The study proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that focuses on supporting structural change for job creation.
Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research
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- The impact of foreign direct investment, foreign aid and trade on poverty reduction: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries (2020, background): “More recent studies suggest that for aid to reduce poverty, it should be targeted at the right programmes and objectives such as job creation, and directly at social expenditure on health, and education (Guillaumont & Wagner, 2014; Michaelson, 2015; Page & Shimeles, 2015).”
- Foreign Aid and Inclusive Development: Updated Evidence from Africa, 2005-2012 (2017, unknown): “…the MDG-related poverty trends by suggesting mechanisms by which foreign aid could be tailored to achieve more employment, inclusive growth and poverty alleviation (Jones & Tarp, 2015; Simpasa et al., 2015; Jones et al., 2015; Asongu & Tchamyou, 2015; Page & Shimeles, 2015; Page & Söderbom, 2015).”
- Fostering Graduate Employability: Rethinking Tanzania’s University Practices (2021, background): “However, in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, and Tanzania in particular, where economic performance is not creating employment opportunities quickly enough for youth and graduates (Filmer & Fox, 2014; Fine et al., 2012; Page & Shimeles, 2015), the role of universities has received less attention.”
- The Changing Structure of Africa's Economies (2017, background): “Researchers have also noted that real consumption is growing in Africa (Young 2012) and that poverty is falling (McKay 2013, Page and Shimeles 2014).”