This paper reviews the current state of literature on the impacts of urbanisation on rural
development in the context of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with special emphasis to the …

Africa's rural population continues to expand rapidly, and labor productivity in agriculture
and many rural-off farm activities remains low. This review uses the lens of a dual economy …

Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly
on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical …

This paper uses comparable income aggregates from 41 national household surveys from
22 countries to explore the patterns of income generation among rural households in Sub …

From 2000 to 2014, per capita GDP in sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35% in real
terms, doubling in some countries. Such progress has happened while agricultural …

Develo** countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard
models emphasize rural–urban migration, focusing on rural push factors (agricultural …

We report on the prevalence and patterns of non-farm enterprises in six sub-Saharan African
countries, and study their performance in terms of labor productivity, survival and exit, using …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa
inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive …

Recent decades have seen the rural areas of develo** and emerging countries undergo
significant structural changes. They are the source of several pertinent international …

As countries develop, they restructure away from agriculture and urbanize. But structural
transformation and urbanization patterns differ substantially, with some countries fostering …