Cote d'Ivoire Jobs Diagnostic: Employment, Productivity, and Inclusion for Poverty Reduction

Luc Christiaensen and Patrick Premand

No 27367968, Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides from The World Bank

Abstract: After a decade of crisis and stellar economic growth over the past five years, Côte d’Ivoire has now set its sight on becoming an emerging economy. Improving prospects for productive employment will be essential for socially sustainable growth and poverty reduction. The ""Cote d'Ivoire Jobs Diagnostic: Employment, Productivity, and Inclusion for Poverty Reduction"" report provides a comprehensive and multi-sectoral empirical analysis of employment challenges and opportunities to inform strategies and policy actions in Côte d’Ivoire. The report aims to expand policy discussions on employment from a focus on the number of jobs and unemployment to a broader attention on the quality, productivity and inclusiveness of jobs. It makes the case for a jobs strategy with a sharper poverty lens that would focus on raising labor productivity in agriculture and informal off-farm employment to foster structural transformation, while, in parallel, pursuing longer-term goals of expanding the thin formal sector.

Keywords: self-employment; account advance rate; international institute for applied systems analysis; rate of return to capital; International Fund for Agricultural Development; Country Policy and Institutional Assessment; quality of education service; Net Value of Production; Demographic and Health Survey; information and communication technology; access to primary education; investment in agricultural research; small and medium enterprise; participation in primary education; access to wage employment; share of total spending; system of national accounts; formal sector; labor productivity; productive employment opportunity; segments of society; share of labor; foreign direct investment; employment in agriculture; access to capital; gross enrollment rate; number of jobs; source of employment; structure of employment; gdp growth rate; Agricultural Value Chain; rural area; Job Creation; high poverty rate; complete primary education; labor productivity increase; demand for labor; expansion of export; provision of service; high-value agricultural product; Access to Education; agricultural export commodity; inorganic fertilizer use; quality of job; improvements in access; share of employment; access to training; safe working environment; family and friends; Oil & Gas; gender parity index; privileges and immunity; Oil and Gas; working age population; total factor productivity; millennium development goal; total fertility rate; African Agricultural Productivity; forms of employment; share of wage; lack of competition; composition of employment; quality of employment; quality employment; traditional apprenticeship system; demand for food; return to education; growth in agriculture; social protection policy; private training provider; business environment; informal sector; employment opportunities; human capital; agricultural labor; household survey; wage sector; cash crop; Emerging economies; emerging economy; working-age population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 175
Date: 2017-01-01
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