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Publications
Publications of Interest
By Region/Country
AFRICA
Mozambique
- Policy Brief #1, “Rural Labour Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New View of Poverty, Power and Policy.” November 2008, The Centre for Development Policy and Research at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Drawing on original data from a large rural labour market survey in Mozambique, the authors, Christopher Cramer, Carlos Oya and John Sender of SOAS, are able to reveal the diverse and complex reality of rural labour markets in sub-Saharan Africa and confirm that such markets are central to the economic prospects of a large number of poor rural workers, both women and men.
In the process, they call into question the reliability of most standard surveys and the applicability of most standard theoretical models of the labour market. The policy implications of their findings also run counter to some of the current biases of the international donor community, such as concentrating on improving the lot of small farmers, instead of wage workers, and offering microcredit for self-employment instead of providing sizeable credits and infrastructure investment to stimulate more decent-paying, poverty-reducing jobs on larger farms.
ASIA
MIDDLE EAST
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