livelihood. Moreover, this agriculture has become increasingly commercialized over time. This paper uses the five wave VARHS …

growth and urbanization, which in turn induced deeper agrarian change and food system transformations. In South Asia, these … accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food … insecurity in this part of Asia remain. These challenges remain in a context of relatively advanced urbanization, strongly …

This study examines the relationship between urbanization and structural transformation in Lagos. Specifically, the … is a shift from agriculture, there is little or no structural transformation as the movement is largely into the …

movement of labour out of agriculture has contributed to aggregate growth. But, this trend is slowing and is leading to a …

policies relating to women's empowerment against a backdrop of rapid urbanization. -- urbanization ; women ; malnutrition …

Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate … focuses on agriculture's relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African … governments are often provided conflicting recommendations on the importance of rural agriculture or urban industry. We develop …

An important stylized fact about African economic development is the phenomenon of urbanization without structural …

agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved … shifting roles of industry vs. agriculture and that of government, and the public sector vs. markets and the private sector …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth …

interventions in the agriculture sector have made important contributions to GDP growth. This growth has been accompanied by a … structural transformation that Ethiopia has shown in the last decade, including a continuous decline in the role of agriculture … and rise in that of services, have led to reallocation of jobs and labour from low-productivity agriculture to more …