Transformation of Rural Africa

List of contents

Introduction: Africa’s Unfolding Economic Transformation 1. Agricultural Transformation, Nutrition Transition and Food Policy in Africa: Preston Curves Reveal New Stylised Facts 2. Africa’s Evolving Employment Trends 3. Understanding the Role of Rural Non-Farm Enterprises in Africa’s Economic Transformation: Evidence from Tanzania 4. Roads and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 5. Youth Migration and Labour Constraints in African Agrarian Households 6. The Quiet Rise of Large-Scale Trading Firms in East and Southern Africa 7. Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Rural Malawi 8. Changing Patterns of Wealth Distribution: Evidence from Ghana

About the author

T. S. Jayne is University Foundation Professor of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. He is also Co-Director of the Alliance for African Partnership, and a Distinguished Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists.
Jordan Chamberlin is a Spatial Economist with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, based in Ethiopia.
Rui Benfica is a Lead Economist at the Research and Impact Assessment Division, Strategy and Knowledge Department, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy.

Summary

This book provides a fresh, evidence-based and policy-relevant understanding the dynamic transformations unfolding in Africa’s rural areas. It also identifies the key opportunities for, and challenges to, sustaining this growth in coming decades. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

Product details

• Authors: T. S. (Michigan State University Jayne, T. S. Chamberlin Jayne, Thomas S. (Michigan State University Jayne
• Assisted by: Rui Benfica (Editor), Jordan Chamberlin (Editor), Jordan (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) Chamberlin (Editor), T. S. Jayne (Editor), Thomas S. Jayne (Editor), Thomas S. (Michigan State University Jayne (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138325494
• ISBN: 978-1-138-32549-4
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, Africa, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Rural communities, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies