Improving Skills Development in the Informal Sector: Strategies for Sub-Saharan Africa

Arvil V. Adams

ISBN 10: 0821399683 / ISBN 13: 9780821399682

Editore: World Bank Publications, 2013

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Sub-Saharan Africa has millions of nonfarm workers engaged in small and household enterprises outsideformal wage employment, constituting the informal sector. Previously seen as a pool of surplus laborexpected to be absorbed by future industrialization, this sector has instead become a persistent feature ofthe region’s economic landscape, and accounts for a majority of new jobs created off the farm.Expanding the sector's potential as a source of employment for the region's growing workforce andimproving its productivity and earnings are priorities for poverty reduction. This book examines the roleplayed by education and skills development in serving these priorities.Improving Skills Development in the Informal Sector: Strategies for Sub-Saharan Africa looks at how formaleducation, technical and vocational education and training, apprenticeships, and on-the-job learning shapeemployment and earnings in the informal sector in five African countries. These countries-Ghana, Kenya,Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania-together account for one-third of Sub-Saharan Africa’s population of nearly900 million, and of the nearly 36 million nonfarm workers in those five countries, 7 out of 10 work in theinformal sector.The importance of this book is its quantitative assessment, using household surveys, of the relationship ofdifferent sources of skills development to the sector in which one works and to one’s earnings. The bookalso examines a set of economic constraints to skills development and offers an insightful approach toimproving employment outcomes, including examples of successful interventions taken from the fivecountries and elsewhere.

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Titolo: Improving Skills Development in the Informal...
Casa editrice: World Bank Publications
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Paperback / softback
Condizione: New