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The authors examine the challenges facing Africa's youth in their transition from school to working life, and propose a strategy for meeting these challenges. Topics covered include the effect of education on employment and income, broadening employment opportunities, and enhancing youth capabilities. Labor is the most abundant asset of poor households in Africa. Developing this asset is therefore essential to helping households move out of poverty. Strengthening the work force can also improve the investment climate, increase economic growth, and prevent instability and violence, particularly

Youth --- Labor market --- Jeunesse --- Marché du travail --- Employment --- Social conditions. --- Travail --- Conditions sociales --- Youth. --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Social conditions --- Marché du travail --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Youths --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Supply and demand --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Markets

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Ethiopia has made major strides in improving its human development indicators in the past 15 years, achieving significant increases in the coverage of basic education and health services in a short period of time. Imrovements took place during a period of massive decentralization of fiscal resources, to the regions in 1994 and to woredas in 2002-03. The devolutionof power and resources from the federal and regional governments to woredas appears to have improved the delivery of basic services. Surveys of beneficiaries reveal that they perceive that service coverage and quality have improved. B

Decentralization in government --- Public administration --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Centralization in government --- Devolution in government --- Government centralization --- Government decentralization --- Government devolution --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Local government --- Public officers --- Central-local government relations --- Federal government

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The Cash Dividend: The Rise of Cash Transfer Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa assimilates results of a thorough review of the recent use of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing from sources including program documentation, policy papers, peer-reviewed publications, and interviews, it paints a picture of the evolution and current state of cash transfers, which include unconditional and conditional cash transfers and emergency- and development-focused transfers. It presents analysis from data collected and describes broad trends in design features and implementation, including obj

Transfer payments --- Economic assistance --- Government transfer payments --- Payments, Transfer --- Expenditures, Public --- Income distribution --- National income --- Accounting