Historically, landlessness has been rare in Africa, except in former settler colonies. That has constrained the growth of rural labor markets, because most people have been able to make a living ...

COMMON WISDOM #15: Non-farm enterprises in rural ... rural Africa may have to absorb large parts of the estimated 65 million new labor market entrants by 2020. This paper describes these enterprises, ...

The household survey data do not reveal a systematic increase in inequality across countries in Africa. But the number of extremely wealthy Africans is increasing. Differences between urban and rural ...