Non-Farm Enterprises and the Rural Youth Employment Challenge in Ghana
dc.contributor.author | Lambon-Quayefio, Monica | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Ghana | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-22T08:29:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-22T08:29:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-05-22 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/12981 | |
dc.description.abstract | Non-farm enterprises have generally been perceived as a silver bullet solution for rural unemployment. This article therefore provides some insights on their potential to resolve the youth unemployment challenge in rural Ghana. Non-farm enterprises in Ghana are heterogeneous in nature based on type of enterprise, range of activities and productivity. Evidence suggests that motivations for operating these enterprises are mixed. Some households operate them as a coping mechanism to deal with household or agricultural shocks, while others may also be operated as business entities with the potential to grow sustainably and offer employment to young people. In order to harness the full potential of non-farm enterprises to address the rural youth employment challenge, it is imperative for policymakers in Ghana to identify specific sub-sectors that lend themselves to growth and have the capacity to offer sustainable employment avenues, and to critically interrogate and examine the primary reason of their establishment. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;48.3 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence, which permits downloading and sharing provided the original authors and source are credited – but the work is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Agriculture | en |
dc.subject | Children and Youth | en |
dc.subject | Work and Labour | en |
dc.title | Non-Farm Enterprises and the Rural Youth Employment Challenge in Ghana | en |
dc.type | Series paper (IDS) | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Rural Futures | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2017.130 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-05-22 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | c941507f-fd0b-4fc3-9822-4b2132f61a1d | en |
Files in this item
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence, which permits downloading and sharing provided the original authors and source are credited – but the work is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode