This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location. Please choose a different delivery location.

Have one to sell?

Adjustment, Employment and Missing Institutions in Africa: The Experience in Eastern and Southern Africa Paperback – January 1, 1999

by Rolph van der Hoeven (Author)

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Hardcover

"Please retry"

—

$1.13

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$55.00

—

$55.00

The essays concentrate on Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, where less than ten per cent of the labour force work in the formal sector, as compared with some 20 to 40 per cent in the 1960s. The labour force is growing ata faster rate than the creation of new jobs, leading to increased informalization of the economy, but there is a lack of institutions to implement any economic policy reform or to provide the necessary supply response to such policies. Public sector workers have been reduced but there have not been enough jobs to compensate in the rest of the formal sector; meanwhile, the education and training institutions have difficulty in providing the skills needed for the restructured markets. The consensus of opinion in these articles is that the lack of institutions, of democratic policy making, and of consultation among major social groups has seriously undermined the implementation of reform policies. North America: ILO/Brookings Institution

Print length

288 pages
Language

English
Publisher

James Currey
Publication date

January 1, 1999
Dimensions

6.14 x 0.93 x 9.21 inches
ISBN-10

0852551614
ISBN-13

978-0852551615
See all details

Customer reviews

5 star

4 star

3 star

2 star

1 star

How customer reviews and ratings work

Image Unavailable

Adjustment, Employment and Missing Institutions in Africa: The Experience in Eastern and Southern Africa Paperback – January 1, 1999

Customer reviews

No customer reviews