Author : Jacques Charmes
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1788972805
This Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy captures the magnitude of the informal economy for the global labour force. It unravels numerous concepts, definitions and methods of data collection to offer valuable insight into the differences between the informal, non-observed and shadow economies.
Author : Motoki Takahashi
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2021-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9956553395
In Africa, people striving to live and survive under the complex relationship between development and subsistence have been directly or indirectly feeling influences of globalisation. As Africa's involvement in globalisation deepens, social phenomena are apparently synchronizing or becoming more similar to those in the rest of the world, but they are not homogenised with them, especially those of developed countries now or in the past. The dichotomic view distinguishing development and subsistence has already become outdated. Day after day, African people are trying to reconcile or bridge the two as capable actors. People in Africa, faced with challenges common throughout the world, live in their own ways. Africa can contribute to the world by sharing knowledge acquired through the struggles of development and subsistence, and by bridging the two.
Author : Abel Polese
Publisher : Springer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030050394
This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organisations. The authors classify them as alternative, subversive forms of governance performed by marginal (and often invisible) peripheral actors. The volume studies how the informal and the extra-legal unfold transnationally and, in particular, how and why they have been/are being progressively criminalized and integrated into the construction of global and local dangerhoods; how the above-mentioned phenomena are embedded into a post-liberal security order; and whether they shape new states of exception and generate moral panic whose ultimate function is regulatory, disciplinary and one of crafting practices of political ordering.
Author : Jieun Choi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464817618
L‘avenir du travail en Afrique se penche sur deux questions fondamentales : comment créer des emplois productifs et comment subvenir aux besoins des laissés-pour-compte. Le rapport met en lumière comment l’adoption des technologies numériques, conjuguée à d’autres phénomènes mondiaux, transforme la nature du travail en Afrique subsaharienne et pose un défi en même temps qu’elle crée de nouvelles possibilités. Les auteurs montrent que les nouvelles technologies ne sont pas simplement synonymes de destruction d’emplois, comme on le craint généralement, mais qu’elles peuvent permettre aux pays africains de construire un monde du travail inclusif et offrir des opportunités aux travailleurs les moins qualifiés. Pour exploiter ces opportunités, cependant, il est indispensable de mettre en place des politiques publiques et de réaliser des investissements productifs dans quatre domaines principaux. Il faudra notamment promouvoir des technologies numériques inclusives, développer le capital humain d’une main-d’oeuvre jeune, globalement peu qualifiée et qui s’accroît rapidement, augmenter la productivité des entreprises et des travailleurs du secteur informel et élargir la couverture de la protection sociale pour atténuer les risques liés aux bouleversements du marché du travail. Le présent rapport, prolongement du Rapport sur le développement dans le monde 2019 de la Banque mondiale, aborde en conclusion d’importantes questions de politique publique qui viendront alimenter de futurs travaux de recherche permettant de guider les pays africains sur la voie d’une croissance plus inclusive.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2018-03-29
Category :
ISBN : 926429175X
Tunisia has experienced strong economic and social progress in recent decades and, more recently, a successful democratic transition. The convergence process has slowed down, however, due to the low level of investment since the early 2000s, while regional and labour market inequalities have ...
Author : Ruth Hanau Santini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319744062
This book explores the complexity of the only widely-acclaimed successful democratic transition following the Arab uprisings of 2010-2011 – the Tunisian one. The country’s transformation, in terms of state-society relations across several analytical dimensions (citizenship, security, political economy, external relations), is looked at through the prism of statehood and of limited statehood in particular. The author illustrates how the balance of power and the relationship between the state and societal forces have been shaped and reshaped a number of times at key critical junctures by drawing on examples from very different policy arenas. The critical reading of statehood speaks beyond the Tunisian case study as notions of limited statehood can be applied, with different degrees of intensity and in some dimensions more than others, to most political systems in the Middle East and North Africa. Accessible for students, academics and professionals alike, the book illuminates the complexities and challenges of a successful, albeit still fragile, transition.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2022-04-04
Category :
ISBN : 9264847162
Tunisians are facing the worst crisis in a generation, as COVID-19 hit an economy that was already slowing down. Macroeconomic policy through fiscal stimulus and monetary easing limited the depth and severity of the recession, but the pandemic has exacerbated structural weaknesses, in particular low investment and job creation, high unemployment and informality, mismatch between skills demand and supply, and outward migration of high-skilled professionals.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2022-11-14
Category :
ISBN : 9264728716
This annual publication compiles comparable tax revenue and non-tax revenue statistics for 31 countries in Africa. The report extends the well-established methodology on the classification of public revenues set out in the OECD Interpretative Guide to African countries, thereby enabling comparison of tax levels and tax structures not only across the continent, but also with the OECD, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia and the Pacific.
Author : Fréderic Lapeyre
Publisher : Academia
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2806109973
L'économie informelle a pendant longtemps été une boite noire faute de données disponibles et compte tenu de la diversité et de la complexité des institutions et des pratiques à l'oeuvre en son sein. Pourtant c'est la réalité du monde du travail de la grande majorité des travailleurs en Afrique. Cet ouvrage s'adresse à tous ceux désireux d'en savoir plus sur le fonctionnement de l'économie informelle et sur les conditions d'une transition vers l'économie formelle.
Author : Ferdinand Eibl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192571079
Why have social spending levels and social policy trajectories diverged so drastically across labour-abundant Middle Eastern and North African regimes? And how can we explain the marked persistence of spending levels after divergence? Using historical institutionalism and a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods Social Dictatorships: The Political Economy of the Welfare State in the Middle East and North Africa develops an explanation of social spending in authoritarian regimes. It emphasizes the importance of early elite conflict and attempts to form a durable support coalition under the constraints imposed by external threats and scarce resources. Social Dictatorships utilizes two in-depth case studies of the political origins of the Tunisian and Egyptian welfare state to provide an empirical overview of how social policies have developed in the region, and to explain the marked differences in social policy trajectories. It follows a multi-level approach tested comparatively at the cross-country level and process-traced at micro-level by these case studies.
