Africa

Why the Digital Economy is Key to Formalizing Africa's Informal Sector

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 allAfrica.com (14.09.2017) With the commodities crisis crippling the economies of countries like South Africa and Nigeria, it's become more important than ever that Africans develop the blueprint for their own start-up nations. While industrialization is an appealing path to growth for countries like Ethiopia, more nations should value the developmental potential sitting in front of them: Africa's large informal sector.

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Africa
Topics
Employment policies
Extension of coverage
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Labour market
Societal Impact
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The Livelihood Impacts of Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Beneficiary Perspectives from Six Countries

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World Development (nov 2017) Cash transfers (CTs) are a social protection mechanism to reduce the poorest households’ vulnerability to shocks and build human capital by smoothing consumption and sustaining expenditure on education and social welfare. Our study examines whether and how CTs go beyond welfare objectives to promote livelihoods.

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Africa
Topics
Extension of coverage
Conditional cash transfers

[Interview] Tackling youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Creating decent jobs for a rapidly expanding young African labour force

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ILO (24.08.2017) Within the next 15 years, some 375 million young people will become of working age in Africa, equivalent to the current population of Canada and the United States combined. By 2050, nearly one in three young people will be living in sub-Saharan Africa, and most of them simply cannot afford not to work.

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Africa
Topics
Employment of young workers

Can a universal basic income resolve future income security challenges?

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Can a universal basic income resolve future income security challenges? Universal basic income approaches are currently high on the agenda as possible policy options to resolve the income security challenges that emerge on the one hand from new forms of work in the wake of digitalization and automation, as well as from informal and precarious employment. 

 

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Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Topics
Extension of coverage
Inequalities
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Labour market
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Afrique: le Rapport d’Alger sur le développement social au menu du 29e sommet de l’UA

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Radio Algérie (03.07.2017) Le Rapport de la Commission africaine de la deuxième session du Comité technique spécialisé sur le développement social, le travail et l'emploi (CTS), organisée récemment à Alger sera soumis à l’examen et l’adoption par la 29eme Conférence des Chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement, dont les travaux débuteront lundi à Addis-Abeba.

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Africa

Why we should all have a basic income | World Economic Forum

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A promise of equal opportunity

“Basic income” would be an amount sufficient to secure basic needs as a permanent earnings floor no one could fall beneath, and would replace many of today’s temporary benefits, which are given only in case of emergency, and/or only to those who successfully pass the applied qualification tests. UBI would be a promise of equal opportunity, not equal outcome, a new starting line set above the poverty line.

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Africa
Americas
United States
Asia
Europe
Topics
Extension of coverage
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
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