Expanding Job Opportunities in Ghana / (Record no. 5013)
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| control field | 210941 |
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20210811113902.0 |
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| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| fixed length control field | 020129s2016 dcu o i00 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781464809422 |
| Terms of availability | 35.00 USD |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781464809415 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (The World Bank)210941 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DJBF |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | DJBF |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Honorati, Maddalena. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 25046 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Expanding Job Opportunities in Ghana / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Maddalena Honorati. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Washington, D.C. : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | The World Bank, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (160 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 347 ## - DIGITAL FILE CHARACTERISTICS | |
| File type | data file |
| Source | rda |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Directions in Development;Directions in Development - Human Development |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Ghana was, until very recently, a success story in Africa, achieving high and sustained growth and impressive poverty reduction. However, Ghana is now facing major challenges in diversifying its economy, sustaining growth, and making it more inclusive. Most of the new jobs that have been created in the past decade have been in low-earning, low-productivity trade services. Macroeconomic instability, limited diversification and growing inequities in Ghana's labor markets make it harder for the economy to create more jobs, and particularly, better jobs. Employment needs to expand in both urban areas, which will continue to grow rapidly, and rural areas, where poverty is still concentrated. The current fiscal and economic crisis is heightening the need for urgent reforms but limiting the room for maneuver and increasing pressure for a careful prioritization of policy actions. Going forward, Ghana will need to consider an integrated jobs strategy that addresses barriers to the business climate, deficiencies in skills, lack of competitiveness of job-creating sectors, problems with labor mobility, and the need for comprehensive labor market regulation. Ghana needs to diversify its economy through gains in productivity in sectors like agribusiness, transport, construction, energy, and information and communications technology (ICT) services. Productivity needs to be increased also in agriculture, in order to increase the earnings potential for the many poor who still work there. In particular, Ghana's youth and women need help in connecting to these jobs, through relevant skills development and services that target gaps in information about job opportunities. Even with significant effort, most of Ghana's population will continue to work in jobs characterized by low and fluctuating earnings for the foreseeable future, however, and they will need social safety nets that help them manage vulnerability to income shortfalls. More productive and inclusive jobs will help Ghana move to a second phase of structural transformation and develop into a modern middle-income economy. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Inclusion |
| 9 (RLIN) | 25047 |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Informality |
| 9 (RLIN) | 25048 |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Jobs |
| 9 (RLIN) | 25049 |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Labor |
| 9 (RLIN) | 25050 |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Migration |
| 9 (RLIN) | 25051 |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Productivity |
| 9 (RLIN) | 25052 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Honorati, Maddalena. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 25046 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Johansson de Silva, Sara. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 25053 |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Main entry heading | Print Version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781464809415 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | World Bank e-Library. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 25054 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-0941-5">http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-0941-5</a> |
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