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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Abbreviations | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Context: The Economic Environment for Job Creation | p. 9 |
Demographics | p. 9 |
Wage and Salary Employment | p. 10 |
Economic Growth and Structure of GDP | p. 11 |
Structural Shifts Within Wage and Salary Employment | p. 14 |
Constraints: Missing Private Sector Demand | p. 17 |
Investment Climate | p. 19 |
Wage Flexibility | p. 21 |
Labor Flexibility | p. 23 |
Conditions: The State of the African Labor Force | p. 29 |
Education | p. 30 |
Health | p. 40 |
Child Labor | p. 44 |
Consequences: The Growth of the Informal Sector | p. 49 |
Conclusion: The Prospects for Better Outcomes | p. 59 |
Measuring Labor Force Participation in Africa: A Conundrum | p. 63 |
References | p. 69 |
Index | p. 77 |
Boxes | |
Translating Common Labor Concepts to Conditions in Africa | p. 3 |
Most African Countries Did not Realize High Economic Growth Rates, 1995-2006 | p. 13 |
Definitions and Classification of the Informal Sector | p. 50 |
Figures | |
Major Obstacles Facing African Firms | p. 20 |
Percentage of Children Completing Primary Education, by Gender and Household Income | p. 31 |
Women without Education: National Percentage and Gap between Rural and Urban | p. 32 |
Tables | |
Percentage of the Population Living on Less than $1 a Day, by Region | p. 1 |
Growth of the Labor Force, Wage and Salary Employment, and GDP per Capita in Selected African Countries | p. 11 |
Indicators of Labor Flexibility, by Region | p. 24 |
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