Ngos And The Informal Sector In Africa
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Author | : Aboudou Touré Cheaka |
Publisher | : IIED |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Economic development projects |
ISBN | : 1843690691 |
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Author | : Aboudou Touré Cheaka |
Publisher | : IIED |
Total Pages | : 38 |
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Download NGOs AND THE INFORMAL SECTOR IN AFRICA Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Ilda Lindell |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-04-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1848138334 |
Download Africa's Informal Workers Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond. Gathering cases from nine countries and cities across sub-Saharan Africa, and from a range of sectors, this volume goes beyond the usual focus on household ‘coping strategies’ and individual agency, addressing the growing number of collective organizations through which informal workers make themselves visible and articulate their demands and interests. The emerging picture is that of a highly diverse landscape of organized actors, providing grounds for tension but also opportunities for alliance. The collection examines attempts at organizing across the formal-informal work spheres, and explores the novel trend of transnational organizing by informal workers. Part of the ground-breaking Africa Now series, Africa’s Informal Workers is a timely exploration of deep, ongoing economic, political and social transformations.
Author | : Leandro Medina |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2017-07-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1484309030 |
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The multiple indicator-multiple cause (MIMIC) method is a well-established tool for measuring informal economic activity. However, it has been criticized because GDP is used both as a cause and indicator variable. To address this issue, this paper applies for the first time the light intensity approach (instead of GDP). It also uses the Predictive Mean Matching (PMM) method to estimate the size of the informal economy for Sub-Saharan African countries over 24 years. Results suggest that informal economy in Sub-Saharan Africa remains among the largest in the world, although this share has been very gradually declining. It also finds significant heterogeneity, with informality ranging from a low of 20 to 25 percent in Mauritius, South Africa and Namibia to a high of 50 to 65 percent in Benin, Tanzania and Nigeria.
Author | : Karen Tranberg Hansen |
Publisher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789171065186 |
Download Reconsidering Informality Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book brings together two bodies of research on urban Africa that have tended to be separate, studies of urban land use and housing and studies of work and livelihoods. Africa's future will be increasingly urban, and the inherited legal, institutional and financial arrangements for managing urban development are inadequate. Access to employment, shelter and services is precarious for most urban residents. The result is the phenomenal growth of the informal city. Extra-legal housing and unregistered economic activities proliferate and basic urban services are increasingly provided informally. Recent decades of neo-liberal political and economic reforms have increased social inequality across urban space. After an introductory chapter by the editors, the contributions are grouped into the following sections: - LOCALITY, PLACE, AND SPACE - ECONOMY, WORK, AND LIVELIHOODS - LAND, HOUSING, AND PLANNING The case studies are drawn from a diverse set of cities on the African continent. A central theme is how practices that from an official standpoint are illegal or extra-legal do not only work but are considered legitimate by the actors concerned. Another is how the informal city is not exclusively the domain of the poor, but also provides shelter and livelihoods for better-off segments of the urban population.
Author | : International Labour Organisation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : International Labour Office |
Publisher | : International Labour Organization |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Download The Urban Informal Sector in Africa in Retrospect and Prospect Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This annotated bibliography brings together about 200 recent titles (in English and French) on the urban informal sector in Africa and its potential for employment and growth. Arranged thematically, it covers regional variations, training, credit, women, policies and institutional environment, linkages with the formal sector, and interventions by aid organizations.
Author | : Arvil V. Adams |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0821399691 |
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This book uses household surveys in five countries of Sub-Saharan Africa to describe employment off the farm in the region s growing informal sector and assesses how different forms of education and training, including apprenticeships, influence choices in employment and earnings.
Author | : Warner P. Woodworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
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This paper focuses on the experience of using management and social science to empower the poor and build economic self-reliance among indigenous families in the informal economy of Africa. We describe a strategy which eventually became registered as a non-profit or NGO, Care for Life, and has drawn on the research and managerial skills of business faculty and students to assess and improve the organization over the years. Building on human and financial capital, the NGO has had considerable success in developing social innovations, accelerating its growth, and changing the world in Mozambique.
Author | : Hans Christiaan Haan |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2006-10-04 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1402038283 |
Download Training for Work in the Informal Micro-Enterprise Sector Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In Sub-Sahara Africa, the sector of informal micro-enterprises (IMEs) is already employing a large share of the labour force in both urban and rural areas. This study reviews the ways in which the owners and workers of IMEs have acquired their vocational and management skills. It reviews the contributions of all the different training providers, including public sector training institutes, private sector training providers, and training centres run by NGOs and other non-profit organizations. The study finds that informal apprenticeship training is by far the most common source of various skills - in some countries it is likely to be responsible for 80-90% of all ongoing training efforts. Informal apprenticeship training presents a number of important advantages. At the same time it has a number of limitations. The study concludes that there is a major challenge to improve the transfer of relevant skills to IME operators, both through pre-employment training and skills upgrading. In view of the scope of the challenge to provide hundreds of thousands IME owners and workers, as well as large numbers of out of school youths with relevant practical and management skills, it suggests to build upon the strengths of the existing practices of informal apprenticeship training and to remedy its weaknesses by involving professional training providers in upgrading its training organization and delivery, quality and efficiency, and final training outcomes. It reviews the results of a number of innovative interventions in different African countries that are working in this direction. Finally, the study suggests that there is an interesting potential in ‘business-embedded training’ provided by private companies as part of their regular business operations.