...Opeoluwa Adeniyi Adeosun; Philip Akani Olomola; Mosab I. Tabash; Suhaib Anagreh Purpose This paper examined the inclusive growth position of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) through the metrics of poverty-gap, bottom20 and employment. Through these indicators, the study investigated the effects...

...Opeoluwa Adeniyi Adeosun; Mosab I. Tabash Purpose This paper focuses on three key metrics of poverty, income distribution and employment to ascertain the pro-poor and inclusive-growth position of the western African region. The roles of governance structures and their interactive effects are also...

...Brian Tavonga Mazorodze Purpose The purpose is to establish the impact of trade on manufacturing employment in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach Two techniques, the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) and the Dynamic Common Correlated Effects (DCCE), are applied on a panel dataset comprising 26...

...Theo Sparreboom Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between advances in educational attainment on the one hand, and structural change in employment on the other, in four countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for selected periods. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

... jobseekers relative to part-time jobseekers and seekers of formal or wage-employment and self-employment or SMEs compared with those seeking any job. Other factors such as the individual’s reservation wage, marital status, sex and poverty status as well as their rural-urban location are also found to cause...