Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Africa Development Forum Series was created in 2009 to focus on issues of significant relevance to Sub-Saharan Africa’s social and economic development.Its aim is both to record the state of the art on a specifi c topic and to contribute to ongoing local, regional, and global policy debates.It is designed specifi cally to provide practitioners, scholars, and students with the most up-to-date research results while highlighting the promise, challenges, and opportunities that exist on the continent.The series is sponsored by the Agence Française de Développement and the World Bank.The manuscripts chosen for publication represent the highest quality in each institution and have been selected for their relevance to the development agenda.Working together with a shared sense of mission and interdisciplinary purpose, the two institutions are committed to a common search for new insights and new ways of analyzing the development realities of the Sub-Saharan Africa region.