| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 81 pages) : illustrations |
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Directions in development. Poverty |
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Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Poverty.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Table 1 Percentage of the Population Living on Less than 1 a Day, by Region; Box 1 Translating Common Labor Concepts to Conditions in Africa; Chapter 1 Context: The Economic Environment for Job Creation; Table 2 Growth of the Labor Force, Wage and Salary Employment, and GDP per Capita in Selected African Countries; Box 2 Most African Countries Did not Realize High Economic Growth Rates, 1995-2006; Chapter 2 Constraints: Missing Private Sector Demand; Figure 1 Major Obstacles Facing African Firms |
| Summary |
Governments in Africa and their stakeholders have been disappointed with the number of wage and salary jobs that have been created over the last decade or more. Even in countries that experienced both strong economic growth and rapid poverty reduction during this period, job creation has lagged behind expectations. Faced with a rapidly growing labor force, Africa has to find new ways to create better paying jobs. Working Out of Poverty reviews the literature and presents original research by the authors analyzing job creation in Sub-Saharan Africa in light of economic performance over the deca |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-76) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Job creation -- Africa
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Labor supply -- Africa
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Labor market -- Africa
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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Economic history
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Job creation
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Labor market
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Labor supply
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Arbeitsmarktpolitik
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Armoede.
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Arbeidsplaatsen.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001548
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Africa
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Afrika
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Afrika.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gaal, Melissa Sekkel, 1979-
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| LC no. |
2007047529 |
| ISBN |
9780821374436 |
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0821374435 |
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1281385921 |
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9781281385925 |
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9786611385927 |
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6611385924 |
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