SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: IMPACT OF GROWING CORRUPTION AND INFORMAL EC

Created: 12/1/1990

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Sub-Saharan Africa:

Impact of Growing Corruption and

Informal Economic Activities

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ike urban Uformal economy lacks an cstabiiifced, dynamic entrepreneurial tradition. Ii alto it limited by the small tire of the country* market for aonfarm goods and by the minimal purchasing power of the population. These problems, moreover, are aggravated by ibe high concentration of informal actrritictmall Dumber of occupations. Government-operated vocational education programs that are foctued on carpentry and tewing, for example, have bred large numbers of small carpentry and sewingthat saturate the market with their nearly identical products.!-

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