%0 Journal Article
%T Rural Economy Transformation and Education Policy in Sub-Saharan African
%A Helena Merveille Opombo
%A Fatimata Diawara
%J Open Access Library Journal
%V 11
%N 2
%P 1-17
%@ 2333-9721
%D 2024
%I Open Access Library
%R 10.4236/oalib.1110947
%X Rural transformation is integrally linked with the wider processes of structural transformation taking place within a given country. Despite the recent upswing in growth within sub-Saharan Africa, economies are still narrowly based on the production and export of unprocessed agricultural products, renewable natural resources, minerals and crude oil. Even with optimistic scenarios on the growth of the manufacturing and services sectors, in formal job creation and agglom-eration effects, it will take time to complete economic transformation. With some 80 percent of the labour force estimated to be engaged in the informal sector, including low-productivity agriculture and household enterprises, in-creasing agricultural productivity and expanding agribusiness must remain a priority. Complementary and new efforts to support household income diversi-fication by enabling the growth and security of the household enterprise sector will also be central to the transformation process. The purpose of this review is to explore the rural economy and education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. While continuing to place priority on economic and social sector investments, governments must seek to mainstream rural development within national strategies and commit to the long term. Rural and urban development policies and interventions should be brought together, ideally within a territorial or re-gional framework, to strengthen the market and service linkages between rural areas and small towns and secondary cities as drivers of local economic and social development. There remains a critical need to strengthen and make ac-cessible the necessary evidence base to inform public policy on rural economic development. This should include increased investment in the production of quality agricultural and rural sector statistics and relevant social and economic research and its dissemination.
%K Rural Economy
%K Transformation
%K Education
%K Policy
%K Sub-Saharan Africa
%U http://www.oalib.com/paper/6809710