Final research findings and key policy messages
Following the interim findings (May 2017), the research groups within the Productive Employment-theme have finalized their research. The INCLUDE secretariat and research groups have jointly updated one pagers for productive employment sharing the final research results and key policy messages.
In a paper published in World Development, we explore how individuals respond to changes in labor opportunities due to climate variability—extreme temperature and rainfall shocks—in Eastern Africa.
Young people, already hardest hit by unemployment and underemployment in normal times, require extra attention in during the COVID-19 pandemic.
New roads raise incomes and consumption for people living near them, and they produce the largest impacts in countries with very low road densities, such as Ethiopia, Madagascar, Peru, Tanzania, or Uganda.
Public health measures that slow down the transmission of the virus should be continued and efforts to prevent transmission to rural areas should be prioritized.
"Given a very strong reinforcement and reawakening by COVID-19 about global interconnectedness, policies must be globally coordinated both at the health and economic levels."
