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John Page and Abebe Shimeles, authors of a recent
study published by the World Institute for Development Economic Research,
think they have found an answer: not enough workers have moved from the fields
to offices and factories…..
Indeed, in Tanzania and Uganda, jobs have moved
in the other direction, from services to agriculture.
The authors measure how responsive employment is to GDP growth and find
sub-Saharan Africa has the most unresponsive labour markets in the world…..
Page and Shimeles reckon that if employment
shifted away from farming, poverty levels would dive.
Rwanda has experienced such a shift in recent years. Agriculture made up
three quarters of its employment in 2000; that fell to 52 per cent in 2011. A
mining and construction boom emerged.
Page and Shimeles calculate that the
sectoral shift was almost wholly responsible for Rwanda’s subsequent fall in
poverty.
There are lessons here for countries like Nigeria….Yet in 2010, 44 per cent of
Nigeria’s workforce was still employed in the agriculture sector. For a big
drop in poverty, the jobs market needs to change.
Hey, You see this is the problem – there's certain types of ignorant, fascist pricks, who will watch this short program THEN say they don't give a shit – those people know who they are. This is why there's poverty in the first place, its other peoples ignorance, greed, and racist ideology. If you got nothing good to say about these people, I strongly suggest you shut the fuck up.Thank you!
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