 Insights from Surveys on Business and Enterprises in South Sudan: Jobs, Recovery, and Peacebuilding in Urban South Sudan – Technical Report IVArden Jeremy Finn and Jan Von Der Goltz No 32506580, Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides from The World Bank Abstract: This study assesses jobs in businesses and NGOs in the towns of South Sudan. It is based on a 2019 business survey that includes informal and micro enterprises, as well as a dedicated survey of foreign-owned businesses. The business community is typical of a low-income post-conflict country, but with a particularly weak productive sector and an outsize importance of NGOs and foreign-owned businesses. Two in five commercial businesses are foreign-owned; they employ far more South Sudanese than foreign nationals, and source some inputs locally, though they could become more important customers. NGOs employ one in five workers in businesses, and while UN and aid agency procurement is a minor source of demand in Juba, it is a major factor in smaller markets, for food and personal services. Business obstacles focus on insecurity, lack of demand (including due to inflation), no access to finance, and electricity. The study is one of a set of four reports assessing different aspects of jobs in urban South Sudan in order to formulate policy for recovery. Keywords: Ownership Share Type; number of jobs; complete secondary education; number of workers; commercial business; foreign business; market trader; source of employment; income from business; access to finance; impact of conflict; price of rice; lack of demand; share of employment; impact of inflation; demand for good; access to fund; burden of disease; loss of revenue; rate of hire; books of account; barriers to investment; share of woman; reallocation of resource; public sector wage; labor force participation; share of work; put pressure; family and friends; formal financial system; incidence conflict; loss of asset; lack of skill; impacts on business; labor market outcome; places of business; signs of recovery; access to banking; decline in revenue; loss of consumer; privileges and immunity; large business; aid agency; firm size; Civil War; security service; private security; business income; employment share; macroeconomic environment (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:jbsgrp:32506580 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides from The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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