Africa's Got Work to Do : Employment Prospects in the New Century /

Estimates of the current and future structure of employment in sub-Saharan Africa (2005-20) are obtained based on household survey estimates for 28 countries and an elasticity-type model that relates employment to economic growth and demographic outcomes. Agriculture still employs the majority of th...

Descripció completa

Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Fox, Louise
Altres autors: Haines, Cleary, Munoz, Jorge Huerta, Thomas, Alun
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/201
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF
LEADER 02111cas a2200277 a 4500
001 AALejournalIMF013921
008 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d
020 |c 5.00 USD 
020 |z 9781484389195 
022 |a 1018-5941 
040 |a BD-DhAAL  |c BD-DhAAL 
100 1 |a Fox, Louise. 
245 1 0 |a Africa's Got Work to Do :   |b Employment Prospects in the New Century /  |c Louise Fox, Cleary Haines, Jorge Huerta Munoz, Alun Thomas. 
264 1 |a Washington, D.C. :  |b International Monetary Fund,  |c 2013. 
300 |a 1 online resource (39 pages) 
490 1 |a IMF Working Papers 
500 |a <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required 
500 |a <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required 
506 |a Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 
520 3 |a Estimates of the current and future structure of employment in sub-Saharan Africa (2005-20) are obtained based on household survey estimates for 28 countries and an elasticity-type model that relates employment to economic growth and demographic outcomes. Agriculture still employs the majority of the labor force although workers are shifting slowly out of the sector. Sub-Saharan Africa's projected rapid labor force growth, combined with a low baseline level of private sector wage employment, means that even if sub-Saharan Africa realizes another decade of strong growth, the share of labor force employed in private firms is not expected to rise substantially. Governments need to undertake measures to attract private enterprises that provide wage employment, but they also need to focus on improving productivity in the traditional and informal sectors as these will continue to absorb the majority of the labor force. 
538 |a Mode of access: Internet 
700 1 |a Haines, Cleary. 
700 1 |a Munoz, Jorge Huerta. 
700 1 |a Thomas, Alun. 
830 0 |a IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;  |v No. 2013/201 
856 4 0 |z Full text available on IMF  |u http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2013/201/001.2013.issue-201-en.xml  |z IMF e-Library