This report on poverty reduction for fiscal 1999 aims to provide an overview of what the Bank is doing to help countries face the challenge of reducing poverty. The report covers three main topics: 1)...
This report reviews progress in implementation of the World Bank's poverty reduction strategy, updating the more comprehensive report for fiscal 1995, Poverty Reduction and the World Bank: Progress and...
Government wage policy in Africa: some findings and policy issues. Export-promoting trade strategy: issues and evidence. the state and the invisible hand. Technological priorities for farming in Sub-Saharan...
This article documents recent trends in government wage and employment levels for a number of African countries and challenges the conventional wisdom that public wages are too high in Africa. Although...
Although employees in the public sector constitute a very small number when compared to the total labor force, they exert a great deal of influence on labor market conditions, and on Nigeria's development...
This paper presents some preliminary findings and views on wage and price policy issues facing the Prices and Incomes Commission (PIC). Following indications by the Chairman of the PIC that he would welcome...