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020			_a9781464809422 _c35.00 USD
020			_z9781464809415
035			_a(The World Bank)210941
040			_aDJBF _beng _cDJBF _erda
100	1		_aHonorati, Maddalena. _925046
245	1	0	_aExpanding Job Opportunities in Ghana / _cMaddalena Honorati.
264		1	_aWashington, D.C. : _bThe World Bank, _c2016.
300			_a1 online resource (160 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aDirections in Development;Directions in Development - Human Development
520	3		_aGhana 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			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		4	_aInclusion _925047
650		4	_aInformality _925048
650		4	_aJobs _925049
650		4	_aLabor _925050
650		4	_aMigration _925051
650		4	_aProductivity _925052
700	1		_aHonorati, Maddalena. _925046
700	1		_aJohansson de Silva, Sara. _925053
776	0	8	_aPrint Version: _z9781464809415
830		0	_aWorld Bank e-Library. _925054
856	4	0	_uhttp://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-0941-5
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