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Author : Aboudou Touré Cheaka,Florentin Nangbe
Publisher : IIED
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Economic development projects
ISBN : 9781843690696
Author : Aboudou Touré Cheaka,Florentin Nangbe
Publisher : IIED
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Leandro Medina,Mr.Andrew W Jonelis,Mehmet Cangul
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484309032
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 : International Labour Organisation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039907337
Author : Hans Christiaan Haan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402038280
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.
Author : Bolaji Ogunseye
Publisher : IIED
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Non-governmental organizations
ISBN : 9781843690689
Author : Ilda Lindell
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848138339
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 : Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780326337
In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning. While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic responsibilities due to patriarchic norms, a new form of urban dynamism - partly informed by the informal economy - is now enabling them to manage poverty, create jobs and link to the circuits of capital and labour. Relying on social ties, reciprocity, sharing and collaboration, women's informal 'solidarity entrepreneurialism' is taking them away from the margins of business activity and catapulting them into the centre. Bringing together key issues of gender, economic informality and urban planning in Africa, Kinyanjui demonstrates that women have become a critical factor in the making of a postcolonial city.
Author : George Kaloudis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793627377
Non-state actors are not new, but they have never before reached their present strength. Among the plethora of non-state actors are thousands, if not millions, of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which play a significant role in the global system and whose role is likely to increase in the future. The proliferation of NGOs is of such scale, scholars refer to it as a global associational revolution. By considering NGOs throughout much of the world, Kaloudis focuses on the reasons for the growth of NGOs particularly since the end of the Cold War, the functions of NGOs, assessment of NGOs, and their place in the global system. The author also shows the ambivalent and often paradoxical role of NGOs, which is reflected in the works of scholars and the actual behavior of NGOs themselves.
Author : Aziz Choudry,Dip Kapoor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780322599
The growth and spread of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest and attention from policy-makers, development practitioners, academics and activists around the world. But how has this phenomenon impacted on struggles for social and environmental justice? How has it challenged - or reinforced - the forces of capitalism and colonialism? And what political, economic, social and cultural interests does this serve? NGOization - the professionalization and institutionalization of social action - has long been a hotly contested issue in grassroots social movements and communities of resistance. This book pulls together for the first time unique perspectives of social struggles and critically engaged scholars from a wide range of geographical and political contexts to offer insights into the tensions and challenges of the NGO model, while considering the feasibility of alternatives.
Author : Peter Gibbon
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : 9171063706
Presents two studies which examine economic and political developments in Tanzania in relation to the mining industry, the expansion of the informal sector and the rise of community development and of local non-governmental organizations. Covers the period from 1960 to 1992. Includes a history of the mining industry from 1918 to 1992 and profiles of mining areas and mining villages. Describes the role of the state and of non-governmental organizations in the provision of education and health care in nine districts.
Author : Jantjie Xaba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Informal sector (Economics)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092419872
Author : Naila Kabeer,Ratna Sudarshan,Kirsty Milward
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780324548
Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste. As individuals - often isolated in reproductive or other home-based work - their weapons of resistance have tended to be restricted to the traditional weapons of the weak: hidden subversions and individualised struggles. Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy explores the emergence of an alternative repertoire among women working in the growing informal sectors of the global South: the weapons of organization and mobilization. This crucial book offers vibrant accounts of how women working as farm workers, sex workers, domestic workers, waste pickers, fisheries workers and migrant factory workers have organized for collective action. What gives these precarious workers the impetus and courage to take up these steps? What resources do they draw on in order to transcend their structurally disadvantaged position within the economy? And what continues to hamper their efforts to gain social recognition for themselves as women, as workers and as citizens? With first-hand accounts from authors closely involved in emerging organizations, this collection documents how women workers have come together to carve out new identities for themselves, define what matters to them, and develop collective strategies of resistance and struggle.
Author : Nelson Casimiro Zavale,Christian Schneijderberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040091814
This book provides a comprehensive account of the patterns of university and academics’ societal engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), considering knowledge production and the resulting outputs, outcomes, and benefits that are yielded from such engagement for society. Responding to the call for increased visibility of otherwise marginalised voices in SSA’s extant global literature on knowledge production, chapters in the book explore questions around Knowledge-based Economies and forms of knowledge, and suggest an alternative framework to overcome conventional bias and limits present in prominent concepts, such as National Systems of Innovation, Triple Helix, and Mode 2. Further, the authors examine the main drivers, constraints, and barriers to this engagement, and the typology of those with a vested interest in its development. Ultimately exploring how higher education institutions in SSA engage with, and transfer knowledge to, different external stakeholders, this book will be of value to academics involved with the study of higher education and science, innovation studies, the sociology of education, and education and development more broadly. In addition, politicians, administrators, and practitioners related to higher education, science, and innovation will also find the book of use.
Author : Frederick C. v. N. Fourie,Caroline Skinner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 0796925348
"Although South Africa's informal sector is small compared to other developing countries, it nevertheless provides livelihoods, employment and income for millions of workers and business owners. Almost half of informal-sector workers work in firms with employees. The annual entry of new enterprises is quite high, as is the number of informal enterprises that grow their employment. There is no shortage of entrepreneurship and desire to grow. However, obstacles and constraints cause hardship and failure, pointing to the need for well-designed policies to enable and support the sector, rather than suppress it. The same goes for formalisation. Recognising the informal sector as an integral part of the economy, rather than ignoring it, is a crucial first step towards instituting a 'smart' policy approach. The South African Informal Sector is strongly evidence- and data-driven, with substantial quantitative contributions combined with qualitative findings--suitable for an era of increased pressure for evidence-based policy-making--and utilises several disciplinary perspectives."--
