moved from low productivity agriculture to higher productivity services and manufacturing. Although the employment share in … a primary education; it has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity of the labor force, as it has … manufacturing is not expanding rapidly, in most of the low-income African countries the employment share in manufacturing has not …

, doubling in some countries. Such progress happened while agricultural productivity growth remained low in the aggregate … recent research, the paper outlines broad priority areas for policy actions to accelerate productivity and initiate …

alienability, and identifies the possibility of a reverse structural change where the share of nonagricultural employment declines … on manufacturing and services employment, rural wages, and per capita household consumption. The evidence on the … disaggregated occupational choices suggests that land restrictions increase wage employment in agriculture, but reduce it in …

-augmenting productivity and other structural parameters in the model may have shifted over time to contribute to the generation of …

barriers to open markets and access to finance are significantly associated with differences in total factor productivity …

rarely focused on the institutional factors that might underpin such structural transformation and productivity. This paper … government land reallocations and formal land-use certificates on agricultural productivity growth, as well as the likelihood of … productivity (at about 30 percent each), mainly by encouraging market-based land transfers. A sustained increase in non …

. In contrast, a positive productivity shock has large and positive impacts on employment in construction and transport …. Agricultural productivity growth induces structural transformation within the services sector in small towns, with employment in … agricultural productivity in structural transformation in the labor market. The empirical work is based on a general equilibrium …

In this paper, survey data are used to document the presence of gender gaps in self-employment, employership, and labor … aggregate productivity and income per capita in these countries. In the model used to carry out this calculation, agents choose …