transitional economies; development theory; agriculture; industrial policy; statistics; sub-Saharan Africa | African Growth and Development Policy Modeling Consortium (AGRODEP)

Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Agriculture, Urbanization and Income Growth

Authors

Mary Tiffen

Publisher

World Development

Publication date

Thu, 07/31/2003 - 21:00

Location

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X03000883

Source / Citation

Tiffen, M. 2003. "Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Agriculture, Urbanization and Income Growth" World Development.31(8):1343-1366.

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Econometric analysis of some 40 years of data has provided mixed results, because of the defects of the data, and because there are some relatively sudden structural economic shifts. An important shift is when agricultural labor ceases to grow, now happening in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A model of the interrelationship over time of the rural, mainly agricultural sector, and the urban, mainly manufacturing and service sector, is proposed. Each provides a market to the other. Growth in both requires investment, but of distinctly different types.