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Employment programs for food security in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Teklu , Tesfaye

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Employment programs, particularly labor-intensive public works (LIPW), have a long history in Sub-Saharan Africa, dating back to the 1960s. The programs expanded rapidly in the 1980s and early 1990s, especially in countries that experienced sharp declines in employment and real wages. Labor-intensive public works have the potential to serve as both short-term sources of employment and long-term generators of growth and productivity increases. They can be designed cost-effectively to alleviate poverty and improve food security. This function can be further strengthened if they are combined with other food-security-enhancing policies and projects. Policymakers, donors, and researchers need to pay close attention to improving the design of public works and to searching for the right portfolio of intervention instruments.

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  • Teklu , Tesfaye, 1995. "Employment programs for food security in Sub-Saharan Africa," 2020 vision briefs 28, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    1. Norman Myers & Jennifer Kent, 2001. "Food and hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa," Environment Systems and Decisions, Springer, vol. 21(1), pages 41-69, March.
    2. R. Hope, 2006. "Water, Workfare and Poverty: The Impact of the Working for Water Programme on Rural Poverty Reduction," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 8(1), pages 139-156, February.

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