Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96335 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/043
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that 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 to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that focuses on supporting structural change for job creation.
Subjects: 
aid
employment
growth
poverty
structural change
JEL: 
F35
J32
O14
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-764-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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