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Record Nr.

UNISA996200553803316

Titolo

Adjustment, Employment and Missing Institutions in Africa: The Experience in Eastern and Southern Africa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : International Labour Office, 1999

ISBN

1-280-02813-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (64 pages)

Disciplina

598.014

Soggetti

Labor market - Africa, Eastern

Labor market - Africa, Southern

Labor economics - Africa, Eastern

Labor economics - Africa, Southern

Business & Economics

Labor & Workers' Economics

Africa, Eastern Economic policy

Africa, Southern Economic policy

Africa, Eastern Economic conditions

Africa, Southern Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

This book identifies 'missing institutions' as a major reason for the often patchy implementation of structural reform policies. In most African countries the labour force is growing faster than new jobs, leading to increased informalization of the economy. Case studies concentrate on Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, where less than ten per cent of the labour force work in the formal sector, as compared with some twenty to forty per cent in the 1960s. Public sector workers have been reduced but there have not been enough jobs to compensate in the rest of the formal sector. The education and training institutions also have difficulties in providing skills for the restructured markets.