02111cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF013921 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484389195 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Fox, Louise. Africa's Got Work to Do : Employment Prospects in the New Century / Louise Fox, Cleary Haines, Jorge Huerta Munoz, Alun Thomas. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013. 1 online resource (39 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Estimates of the current and future structure of employment in sub-Saharan Africa (2005-20) are obtained based on household survey estimates for 28 countries and an elasticity-type model that relates employment to economic growth and demographic outcomes. Agriculture still employs the majority of the labor force although workers are shifting slowly out of the sector. Sub-Saharan Africa's projected rapid labor force growth, combined with a low baseline level of private sector wage employment, means that even if sub-Saharan Africa realizes another decade of strong growth, the share of labor force employed in private firms is not expected to rise substantially. Governments need to undertake measures to attract private enterprises that provide wage employment, but they also need to focus on improving productivity in the traditional and informal sectors as these will continue to absorb the majority of the labor force. Mode of access: Internet Haines, Cleary. Munoz, Jorge Huerta. Thomas, Alun. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/201 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2013/201/001.2013.issue-201-en.xml IMF e-Library