the current and future development of mining. Focusing on Tanzania as typical of the emerging new mineralizing Africa …

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital to boosting the demand for labour in Africa. Africa has some …

The informal sector makes up an overwhelming share of both gross domestic product and total employment in Africa. In … this paper, we lay out some of the basic characteristics of the informal sector in sub-Saharan Africa, relevant …

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the …

remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …

transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of … sectors. We find that Africa is gradually advancing towards structural transformation but at a very slow speed. The empirical …

Africa, but they also have higher failure rates. Ignoring firm exit exaggerates net employment growth. Using panel data for …