LEADER 03499oam 22004695 450 001 9910798867203321 005 20170620150336.0 024 7 $a10.1596/978-1-4648-0941-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000941962 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4744468 035 $a(The World Bank)210941 035 $a(US-djbf)210941 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000941962 100 $a20020129d2016 uf 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aExpanding Job Opportunities in Ghana /$fMaddalena Honorati 210 1$aWashington, D.C. :$cThe World Bank,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (160 pages) 225 1 $aDirections in Development;Directions in Development - Human Development 311 $a1-4648-0941-0 311 $a1-4648-0942-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 3 $aGhana was, until very recently, a success story in Africa, achieving high and sustained growth and impressive poverty reduction. However, Ghana is now facing major challenges in diversifying its economy, sustaining growth, and making it more inclusive. Most of the new jobs that have been created in the past decade have been in low-earning, low-productivity trade services. Macroeconomic instability, limited diversification and growing inequities in Ghana's labor markets make it harder for the economy to create more jobs, and particularly, better jobs. Employment needs to expand in both urban areas, which will continue to grow rapidly, and rural areas, where poverty is still concentrated. The current fiscal and economic crisis is heightening the need for urgent reforms but limiting the room for maneuver and increasing pressure for a careful prioritization of policy actions. Going forward, Ghana will need to consider an integrated jobs strategy that addresses barriers to the business climate, deficiencies in skills, lack of competitiveness of job-creating sectors, problems with labor mobility, and the need for comprehensive labor market regulation. Ghana needs to diversify its economy through gains in productivity in sectors like agribusiness, transport, construction, energy, and information and communications technology (ICT) services. Productivity needs to be increased also in agriculture, in order to increase the earnings potential for the many poor who still work there. In particular, Ghana's youth and women need help in connecting to these jobs, through relevant skills development and services that target gaps in information about job opportunities. Even with significant effort, most of Ghana's population will continue to work in jobs characterized by low and fluctuating earnings for the foreseeable future, however, and they will need social safety nets that help them manage vulnerability to income shortfalls. More productive and inclusive jobs will help Ghana move to a second phase of structural transformation and develop into a modern middle-income economy. 410 0$aWorld Bank e-Library. 606 $aOccupations$zGhana 606 $aJob hunting$zGhana 607 $aGhana$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aOccupations 615 0$aJob hunting 676 $a337.6 700 $aHonorati$b Maddalena$01507548 702 $aSilva$b Sara Johansson de 801 0$bDJBF 801 1$bDJBF 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798867203321 996 $aExpanding Job Opportunities in Ghana$93738401 997 $aUNINA