Studies On The Ghanaian Economy Environment Informal Sector And Labour Markets
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Studies On The Ghanaian Economy Environment Informal Sector And Labour Markets
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Author : A. Baah-Nuakoh
language : en
Publisher: Woeli Publishing Services
Release Date : 2003
Studies On The Ghanaian Economy Environment Informal Sector And Labour Markets written by A. Baah-Nuakoh and has been published by Woeli Publishing Services this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
The second in a three volume series on the Ghanaian economy, focusing on the environment.
Joint Study On Employment And Structural Adjustment In Ghana
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Author : Commission of the European Communities
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Joint Study On Employment And Structural Adjustment In Ghana written by Commission of the European Communities and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.
Recoge: 1. Executive sumary - 2. The main report - 3. Major findings - 4. Recommendations - 5. Annexes.
Expanding Job Opportunities In Ghana
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Author : Maddalena Honorati
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2016-10-24
Expanding Job Opportunities In Ghana written by Maddalena Honorati and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-24 with Business & Economics categories.
Ghana 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.
Employment Labor Markets And Poverty In Ghana
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Author : Sudharshan Canagarajah
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 1997
Employment Labor Markets And Poverty In Ghana written by Sudharshan Canagarajah and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Educacion - Ghana categories.
Development Policies And Institutional Environment For Employment Promotion In The Informal Sector In Ghana
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Development Policies And Institutional Environment For Employment Promotion In The Informal Sector In Ghana written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Full employment policies categories.
The Informal Sector In Ghana S Political Economy
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Author : Kwame Akon Ninsin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Informal Sector In Ghana S Political Economy written by Kwame Akon Ninsin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Business & Economics categories.
This book exposes the negative implications of an acceptance of the informal sector on the masses of the people, especially workers, the poor and unemployed. The author argues that the informal sector is a malignant symptom of a weak capitalist economy. More especially, it is dominated and exploited by the international economy through the weak national capitalist economy. Therefore, it does not have any chance of emerging as an independent and dynamic economic sector that is capable of creating employment for the unemployed and providing a living income for the poor. (DÜI-Hff).
The Urban Informal Sector In Africa In Retrospect And Prospect
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Author : International Labour Office
language : en
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Release Date : 1991
The Urban Informal Sector In Africa In Retrospect And Prospect written by International Labour Office and has been published by International Labour Organization this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
Structural Adjustment Programmes And The Urban Informal Sector In Ghana
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Author : S. D. Barwa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Structural Adjustment Programmes And The Urban Informal Sector In Ghana written by S. D. Barwa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Informal sector (Economics) categories.
Research Handbook On Development And The Informal Economy
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Author : Jacques Charmes
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-25
Research Handbook On Development And The Informal Economy written by Jacques Charmes and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-25 with Social Science categories.
This Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy captures the magnitude of the informal economy for the global labour force. It unravels numerous concepts, definitions and methods of data collection to offer valuable insight into the differences between the informal, non-observed and shadow economies.
Employment Labor Markets And Poverty In Ghana A Study Of Changes During Economic Decline And Recovery
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Author : Sudharshan Canagarajah
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Employment Labor Markets And Poverty In Ghana A Study Of Changes During Economic Decline And Recovery written by Sudharshan Canagarajah and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
November 1997 An awareness on the part of policymakers that the formal sector is only a small part of Ghana's labor market is a necessary precondition of appropriate employment policy. If the government is unwilling to reduce public employment or to alter public spending to invest more in agriculture, and infrastructure employment conditions will worsen, high public-wage policy will fuel inflationary pressures, reducing such investment even further. An active labor policy and employment creation is necessary for sustainable poverty reduction. The slowdown and possible reversal in the rural-to-urban flow of labor in Ghana is symptomatic of a basic shortcoming in the country's economic recovery: the inadequate growth of the productive sector in the nonagricultural economy. The rate of growth of GDP has been adequate but much of the growth has been fueled and led by the services sector, which (at more than 46 percent) has surpassed agriculture as the main contributor to GDP. In some way growth in the services sector has been positive, but arguably it is a once-for-all adjustment to recover that cannot be sustained at this growth rate without commensurate growth in both agricultural and nonagricultural production. Evidently, stabilization and liberalization measures have not been sufficient to put the industrial sector on a path of sustained growth. There is too little skilled labor in Ghana, and demand for industrial goods has been weak, in part because the cost of credit is high and savings are too low for inefficient, state-run enterprises to buy the equipment they need. Returns to higher (especially university) education are high in Ghana, largely because of high wages for government services. Because of inadequate technical and vocational education, returns to secondary education are low. Employment trends have mirrored the deficiency in output growth. Every year since 1987, industrial employment has fallen. The growing labor force, which agriculture could not absorb productively, has spilled over into service activities and the informal sector. Ghana's large informal sector is symptomatic of an economy with low growth potential. In the medium term, the surest way to absorb labor would be to increase investment in the agriculture sector. And the only way to increase investment in that sector is to change the composition in public spending. As long as the public sector wage bill remains a sizable part of government expenditure, an increase in wage levels not compensated by reduction in employment will create strains in the budgetary balance and will defeat the most important instrument of increasing the growth rate of employment-higher levels of public investment in agriculture. It is possible that a vicious circle is complete. Higher wages in the public sector might be necessary to increase efficiency, without which productive public investment is not possible. But if the government is not willing or able to reduce public employment, and is further unable to alter the composition of expenditure to provide more finance for agriculture-related public investment, a high wage public policy will merely fuel inflationary pressures reducing the real investment ratio even further. The only way out of this vicious circle, if it exists, is a larger infusion of foreign and private investment than has been seen so far, supplemented by corrective monetary policy. This paper-a product of the Human Development Technical Family, Africa Region-is a background paper for World Bank Economic Sector Work on Ghana: Labor Markets and Poverty.