Providing economic opportunities for youth in agriculture is essential to securing the future of
agriculture in Africa, addressing poverty, unemployment, and inequality. However, barriers …

Develo** countries made considerable gains during the first decade of the 21st century.
Their economies grew at unprecedented rates, resulting in large reductions in extreme …

This paper estimates the role of agronomic inputs in cereal yield improvements and the
consequences for countries' processes of structural change. The results suggest a clear role …

This paper places recent growth and structural transformation in 11 Sub-Saharan African
countries in historical and international perspective. During the early post-independence …

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 …

In many develo** countries property rights over rural land are maintained through
continuous personal use instead of by land titles. We show that removing the link between …

Drawing on a new set of nationally representative, internationally comparable household
surveys, this paper provides an overview of key features of structural transformation–labor …

China has undergone significant deviations from the command economy established in
1949, achieving unprecedented success in sustaining high growth. Consequently …

How do shocks to agricultural productivity affect the allocation of labor across sectors of the
economy? To answer this, I use data from rural India to show that exogenous increases in …

Africa's food systems are changing fast amid rapid economic growth, emerging urbanization,
and structural transformation. In this study, we use four rounds of nationally representative …