Striving for Better Jobs: The Challenge of Informality in the Middle East and North Africa

by Diego Angel-Urdinola, Roberta Gatti, Joana Silva

While economic growth has been sustained for a number of years in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, this has not resulted in the creation of an adequate number of jobs and has succeeded, at best, in generating low-quality, informal jobs. While there is a great deal of heterogeneity across countries, informality in MENA is widespread, and some countries in the region are amongst the most informal economies in the world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821395351
• ISBN13: 9780821395356
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"