Working Out of Poverty: Job Creation and the Quality of Growth in Africa (Directions in Development: Poverty) - Softcover

Fox, Louise; Gaal, Melissa Sekkel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821374427 ISBN 13: 9780821374429

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2008

Synopsis

In Africa, only few wage and salary jobs open up each year. Hence, most new entrants in the labor market end up supporting themselves in casual labor, self-employment, or small family businesses-activities with low productivity and highly vulnerable. With the globalizing economy, African economies need to become more competitive in all aspects of the investment climate, including improving worker's health and education, to better integrate the informal sector with the high wage economy. However, the analysis of labor markets in Africa is hampered by the lack of data which measures the economic activity earnings, and welfare of the household.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821374427
• ISBN 13: 9780821374429
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96