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标题：EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS FOR FOOD SECURITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
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作者：Teklu, Tesfaye
期刊名称：Journal of Food Distribution Research
印刷版ISSN：0047-245X
出版年度：1995
期号：SUPPL
出版社：Food Distribution Research Society
摘要：Employment programs, particularly labor-intensive public works (LIPW), have a long history inSub-Saharan Africa, dating back to the 1960s. The programs expanded rapidly in the 1980s andearly 1990s, especially in countries that experienced sharp declines in employment and real wages.This rapid expansion of public works programs has mainly been driven by concern about theincreasing problem of labor absorption, which worsened in the 1980s. The decline in real grossdomestic product from an annual average of 5.9 percent in the 1960s and early 1970s to 2.1percent in the 1980s contributed to a decline in the growth of employment from 2.6 percent in the1970s to 0.5 percent in the 1980s. The decline in employment, combined with the rapid growth ofthe labor force, which averaged 2.4 percent a year in the 1980s, led to rising unemployment andunderemployment and widespread poverty and food insecurity.