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Creating Jobs in Africa's Fragile States : Are Value Chains an Answer? /
This book addresses the urgent need for job creation in conflict-affected states in sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that job creation through public works, training, and community-based livelihood often is unsustainable, and argues that efforts to restore local economies through agricultural value chai...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
©2013.
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| Series: | Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Countries and regions.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of contributors
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Prevailing approaches to job creation in fragile and conflict-affected states
- New directions in employment generation in fragile environments
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Box 1. The Liberia community infrastructure program
- Box 2. From relief to long-term recovery : the undp's early recovery program
- Box 3. Examples of livelihood activities in postconflict environments
- Box 4. Lessons from the jovenes programs in Latin America
- Box 5. Rwanda : postconflict poverty reduction strategies
- Box 6. The conflict-affected states of the IFC's Africa initiative
- Box 7. How to pick a winner
- Figures
- Figure 1. the united nation's three-track approach to postconflict assistance
- Tables
- Table 1. Growth, development, and labor indicators for natural resource : rich and poor countries in sub-Saharan Africa, 1999-2009
- Table 2. Growth, development, and labor indicators for fragile and nonfragile countries worldwide, 1999-2009.