Projections of the future employment profile in Côte d'Ivoire indicate that nonagricultural self-
employment is likely to become the largest employment category by 2025. Nonagricultural …

Non-agricultural self-employment is an important part of the economy in Cote d'Ivoire. About
one third of the households, one fourth of all male workers and more than one half of all …

This limited the diagnosis of the employment challenge in the country, as well as analysis of
past trends and assessment of future prospects. Recent efforts by the government to provide …

As highlighted in the previous chapter, increasing agricultural labor productivity is key to the
jobs agenda in Côte d'Ivoire. It plays to its comparative advantage; it raises earnings of the …

WIDER Working Paper 2020/142-Dynamics of off-farm self-employment in the West African
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Given the higher-quality of jobs in the modern formal sector, expanding the size of the formal
sector is key to more and better jobs. As indicated in the analysis in Chapter 1, Côte …

In the past, self-employed workers were often viewed as less productive individuals, yet
recent research has indicated that the nonagricultural self-employed fill a niche in the …

Among the more cogent statistics on economic development is the percentage of the
nonfarm labor force that is self-employed. In some countries, the percentage exceeds 45 …

Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to decline from 2.4 percent in 2019 to-
2.1 to-5.1 percent in 2020, the first recession in the region in 25 years3.[...] The employment …

This paper analyzes heterogeneity among the self-employed in 74 developing countries,
representing two-thirds of the population of the developing world. After profiling how worker …