Labor Markets, Occupational Choice, and Rural Poverty in Selected Countries in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

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Labor Markets, Occupational Choice, and Rural Poverty in Selected Countries in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

dc.contributor.author	Estudillo, Jonna P.
dc.contributor.author	Matsumoto, Tomoya
dc.contributor.author	Uddin, Hayat Chowdhury Zia
dc.contributor.author	Kumanayake, Nandika S.
dc.contributor.author	Otsuka, Keijiro
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-18T18:08:24Z
dc.date.available	2013-01-18T18:08:24Z
dc.date.issued	2012-10
dc.description.abstract	This paper reviews the relative importance of different components of rural labor markets, examining how their functions differ across geographical locations and change over time, and inquiring into the difference in the contribution to poverty reduction among different jobs (i.e., agricultural wage employment, formal and informal nonfarm wage jobs, and nonfarm self-employment). Improving rural investment climate through investment in infrastructure and provision of credit will be helpful, because in all likelihood, increased access to nonfarm jobs, in general, and formal jobs in particular, will become a key factor affecting the improvement of living standards and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a phenomenon particularly visible in Asia from the mid-1980s to late-2000s which has started to appear in Africa. The development of agriculture stimulates the growth of nonfarm sectors through production and consumption linkages. Furthermore, increased farm income tends to be invested in schooling of children, who later look for nonfarm jobs, as seen in the Asian experience. Supply of such educated labor force to nonfarm sectors must have contributed to their development, and balanced development strategy for both farm and nonfarm sectors is clearly needed in SSA for achieving the twin goals of improving living standards and reducing rural poverty.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/12140
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/12140
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Background Paper for the World Development Report 2013;
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	Labor markets
dc.subject	Poverty reduction
dc.subject	agricultural wage employment
dc.subject	nonfarm wage jobs
dc.subject	self-employment
dc.subject	farm income
dc.subject	educated labor
dc.subject	Private sector
dc.subject	Rural development
dc.title	Labor Markets, Occupational Choice, and Rural Poverty in Selected Countries in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Public-Private Partnerships
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-05T11:46:42.534480Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.globalpractice	Social Protection and Labor
okr.globalpractice	Poverty
okr.language.supported	en
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor
okr.topic	Private Sector Development
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction