Priorities for Boosting Employment in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Evidence for Mozambique

Abstract

Should policy-makers, including foreign donors, focus employment strategies in sub-Saharan Africa on strengthening access to formal wage employment or on raising productivity in the informal sector? We examine the evidence in Mozambique and show that crude distinctions between formality and informality are not illuminating. The observed welfare advantage of formal sector workers essentially derives from differences in endowments and local conditions. Non-agricultural informal work can yield higher returns than formal work. The implication is that the informal sector must not be marginalized; and raising productivity in agriculture must be accorded a central place in boosting employment.

How enhancing information and communication technology has affected inequality in Africa for sustainable development: An empirical investigation

“…Third, the recent inequality literature has focused on, inter aliathe nexus between foreign investment and income inequality (Kaulihowa & Adjasi, 2018); relationships between consumption, income, and the wealth of the poorest factions in Sub-Saharan Africa (De Magalhães & Santaeulàlia-Llopis, 2018); nexus between corruption and inequality (Sulemana & Kpienbaareh, 2018); gender inequality (Bayraktar & Fofack, 2018;Elu, 2018;Mannah-Blankson, 2018); reinvention of foreign aid for inclusive development (Asongu, 2016;Jones & Tarp, 2015;Page & Söderbom, 2015); and relationships between information sharing, education, finance, and inequality (Meniago & Asongu, 2018;Tchamyou, 2018aTchamyou, , 2018b.…”

ICT, Financial Access and Gender Inclusion in the Formal Economic Sector: Evidence From Africa

“…Fourth, contemporary inclusive development literature in Africa has largely focused on, inter alia: relationships between inequality and foreign capital flows (Kaulihowa & Adjasi, 2018); connections between consumption, income and the wealth of the poorest factions of society (De Magalhães & Santaeulàlia-Llopis, 2018); nexuses between environmental degradation and inclusive development (Asongu & Odhiambo, 2018b); linkages between corruption and inequality (Sulemana & Kpienbaareh, 2018); the imperative of reinventing development assistance for inclusive development (Jones & Tarp, 2015;Page & Söderbom, 2015;Asongu, 2016); linkages between finance, education, information sharing and income inequality (Meniago & Asongu, 2018;Tchamyou, 2019aTchamyou, , 2019b and gender inclusion (Bayraktar & Fofack, 2018;Elu, 2018;Mannah-Blankson, 2018). This last stream of studies is closest to the present research.…”

Insurance and inequality in Sub‐Saharan Africa: policy thresholds

“…This research extends the former strand of the literature by investigating the relevance of enhancing insurance on inequality because of an apparent gap in the inequality literature. Accordingly, the contemporary inequality literature on Africa has focused on inter alia: the nexuses between finance, education and inequality (Meniago & Asongu, 2018;Tchamyou, 2019Tchamyou, , 2020; the reinvention of foreign aid for inclusive development (Page & Söderbom, 2015;Jones & Tarp, 2015;Asongu, 2016); the relationships between inequality and corruption (Sulemana & Kpienbaareh, 2018); the nexuses between income, consumption and wealth of poor segments of society (De Magalhães & Santaeulàlia-Llopis, 2018); and the connection between inequality and foreign investment (Kaulihowa & Adjasi, 2018).…”