Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa

Golub, Stephen S.; Hayat, Faraz

doi:10.35188/unu-wider/2014/735-6

Cited by 26 publications

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“…Many of the countries even lack Social Protection Policies and related economic policies are also poor. Unemployment in Africa does not regard academic qualifications as citizens often make do with the few available employment opportunities even when they are over-qualified for the jobs (Golub and Hayat 2014). Poverty level in Africa remains high as economic growth remains poor.…”

Section: Economic Issues and Public Policymentioning

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Contemporary Issues in Public Policy

Àkànle

Omobowale

2022

Public Policy and Research in Africa

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This chapter begins by examining the debates around policy paradigms in the study of the changing context of public policy making and policy change. It recognizes that policy ideas are embedded in policy paradigms and that these paradigms form the basis for framing, articulating and implementing public policy. It examines such concepts as pluralism, internationalization and globalization, and polycentricism in the study of public policy. Furthermore, it examines the changing focus and locus of policy discussing such issues as the state versus market, the growing complexity and scale of government and the special concerns of Africans relating to the debate around the issues. Based on the above theoretical debates, certain issues and the competing tools for addressing them are identified for closer scrutiny. These contextual issues include the economic issues in public policy; health issues and public policy; security issues and public policy; the environment and natural resources policy issues; governance and policy issues; and exclusion, vulnerability and public policy. The chapter concludes by drawing out the implications of policy paradigms on policy change and policy performance.

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Section: Economic Issues and Public Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Contemporary Issues in Public Policy

Àkànle

Omobowale

2022

Public Policy and Research in Africa

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“…The unit labor cost ratio is calculated by dividing the wage by a measure of labor productivity. Golub and Hayat (2014) calculated two versions of this measure. The first measures average wage divided by GDP per capita while the second divides manufacturing wage by labor productivity in manufacturing.…”

Section: A Tanzanian Storymentioning

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Food production and the growth of manufacturing: the case of Tanzania

Grabowski

2016

IJSE

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact that slow growth in staple food productivity can have on the process of structural change and, more importantly, on the development of labor intensive industry. Design/methodology/approach A theory of a semi-open economy is developed to analyze the role of staple food productivity on structural change. A case study is used to illustrate the workings of the model. Findings Slow growth in food staple productivity will mean that even when labor is physically abundant, it will not be economically cheap. Thus it will be extremely difficult to promote the expansion of labor intensive manufacturing. The key to rapid structural change is rapid growth in food staple productivity. Practical implications Investment in raising agricultural productivity is critical in the development of labor intensive manufacturing. Social implications Rapid growth can occur without leading to structural change. The bulk of the population remains locked in the rural sector. Originality/value The food sector is shown to be largely non-tradable. As a result solving the food problem domestically is crucial for structural change and economic development. Labor intensive manufacturing needs relatively cheap labor. For labor to be cheap, agricultural productivity (food staples) must rise rapidly.

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“…Middle class members have in general a formal employment, 3 in either public or private sector, live in urban areas and work in non-farm activities; income from these sources tends to be less volatile and less affected by seasonality than agricultural incomes. In SSA, depending on the countries and years, the share of formal employment on total ranges between 10 to 20 percent (International Monetary Fund, 2012;Golub and Hayat, 2014). In Ghana (Honorati and Johansson de Silva, 2016), one of the few countries with repeated and comparable cross sections over two decades, the share of private wage employment on total employment nearly tripled from 6 percent in 1998 to 16 percent in 2012.…”

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confidence: 99%