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Are Young People in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa Caught in Waithood?

dc.contributor.authorOosterom, Marjoke
dc.contributor.authorSumberg, James
dc.coverage.spatialSub-Saharan Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-24T09:48:04Z
dc.date.available2021-05-24T09:48:04Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-24
dc.identifier.citationOosterom, M. and Sumberg, J. (2021) 'Are Young People in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa Caught in Waithood?', IDS Policy Briefing 178, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2021.039en
dc.identifier.issn1479-974X
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16616
dc.description.abstractThe idea that large numbers of young people in sub-Saharan Africa are stuck in waithood – trapped between childhood and adulthood – dominates international development policy discourse. The belief is that because there are no jobs, young people cannot attain social markers of adulthood. Waithood has proved itself to be a very attractive way to frame debates and promote youth employment interventions. But research challenges two aspects of the waithood story: that young people are inactive; and that work is the only route into adulthood. Caution and nuance are required to prevent waithood becoming another catchy term that does little to improve policy.en
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dc.description.sponsorshipInternational Fund for Agricultural Developmenten
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dc.publisherInstitute of Development Studiesen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Policy Briefing;178
dc.rightsThis is an Open Access briefing distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited, any modifications or adaptations are indicated, and the work is not used for commercial purposes.en
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dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectChildren and Youthen
dc.subjectWork and Labouren
dc.titleAre Young People in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa Caught in Waithood?en
dc.typeIDS Policy Briefingen
dc.rights.holderInstitute of Development Studiesen
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dc.identifier.teamRural Futuresen
dc.identifier.doi10.19088/IDS.2021.039
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This is an Open Access briefing distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited, any modifications or adaptations are indicated, and the work is not used for commercial purposes.
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