Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …

With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this … analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Rwanda. It concludes that the vast majority … Management Program and Niger's Community Action Program target women's needs as caretakers. But most reviewed projects do not …

employment opportunities for unskilled African labourers. Youth residing in mining settlements, have a large vested interest in … the current and future development of mining. Focusing on Tanzania as typical of the emerging new mineralizing Africa … school students towards mining as a form of employment and its impact on economic and social life in mining communities are …

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 … potential to become competitive in light manufacturing, but the most promising avenue for export-led growth of employment in …

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 …

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 … product growth and population density reduce unemployment and non-employment. …

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