(constituting 2.6% of all working parents) to exit the labor force. The decline in employment and the consequent earnings loss would …

percentage points higher employment rates after one year compared with a control group offered only help with an immediate need … services affect areas beyond employment, even when other areas of life are participants' primary goals. We find some evidence …

In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …

Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These employment gains have been … (iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa's large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa's large manufacturing … accompanied by: (i) large increases in the number of small manufacturing firms; (ii) limited employment gains in large firms; and …

understand the implications of these shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …Using data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health … Surveys, we show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in …

chronic large deficits. The familiar conclusion that sustained government deficits at full employment depress private capital …

The distribution of employment among Agriculture, Industry, and Service within countries is closely related to the … level of real Gross Domestic Product per capita. As real income rises, Agriculture's share falls, Service employment rises … OECD cross-sections follow almost identical patterns of employment change. The decline of Agriculture is attributable …