Porter, Gina and Hampshire, Kate (2018) 'Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era : perspectives from urban Africa.', Journal of international development., 30 (4). pp. 539-558.
Abstract
Issues surrounding youth employment and unemployment are central to the next development decade. Understanding how youth use mobile phones as a means of communicating and exchanging information about employment and livelihoods is particularly important given the prominence of mobile phone use in young lives. This paper explores and reflects on youth phone usage in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa, drawing on mixed-methods research with young people aged approximately 9–25 years, in 12 (high density) urban and peri-urban sites. Comparative work across these sites offers evidence of both positive and negative impacts. The final section of the paper considers policy implications
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| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3340 |
| Publisher statement: | © 2018 The Authors Journal of International Development Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use,distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Date accepted: | 07 December 2017 |
| Date deposited: | 12 December 2017 |
| Date of first online publication: | 10 January 2018 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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