Constraints to Productive Employment Faced by Safety Nets Beneficiaries in the Sahel : Results of a Multi-Country Qualitative Assessment

In the Sahel subregion, which extends over Central and Western Africa, low labor productivity poses a challenge to poverty reduction, economic growth, and social stability. Social Safety Net Projects target the poorest households who derive their l...

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Main Authors:	Bossuroy, Thomas, Koussoube, Estelle, Premand, Patrick
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	SAFETY NETS EMPLOYMENT LABOR MARKET UNEMPLOYMENT LABOR PRODUCTIVITY WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT GENDER INNOVATION LAB
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/444481585896728523/Constraints-to-Productive-Employment-Faced-by-Safety-Nets-Beneficiaries-in-the-Sahel-Results-of-a-Multi-Country-Qualitative-Assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33552

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spelling	okr-10986-335522021-06-14T09:59:42Z Constraints to Productive Employment Faced by Safety Nets Beneficiaries in the Sahel : Results of a Multi-Country Qualitative Assessment Bossuroy, Thomas Koussoube, Estelle Premand, Patrick SAFETY NETS EMPLOYMENT LABOR MARKET UNEMPLOYMENT LABOR PRODUCTIVITY WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT GENDER INNOVATION LAB In the Sahel subregion, which extends over Central and Western Africa, low labor productivity poses a challenge to poverty reduction, economic growth, and social stability. Social Safety Net Projects target the poorest households who derive their livelihoods from low-productivity activities. As such, they have the potential to improve labor productivity. As part of the Sahel adaptive social protection program (ASPP), the World Bank supports the design and implementation of productive accompanying measures for safety nets beneficiaries. This report sets out the results of a qualitative assessment of the constraints to productive employment that was conducted in the Social Safety Net Project areas, across five of the six countries covered by the ASPP: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Chad. This assessment identified the main challenges to productivity growth in farm and nonfarm sectors and, jointly with other surveys and local and regional consultations, helped define accompanying measures to safety nets programs aimed at increasing current employment productivity and generating more productive jobs. 2020-04-09T16:24:47Z 2020-04-09T16:24:47Z 2020-01 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/444481585896728523/Constraints-to-Productive-Employment-Faced-by-Safety-Nets-Beneficiaries-in-the-Sahel-Results-of-a-Multi-Country-Qualitative-Assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33552 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Social Protection Study Africa Sahel Sub-Saharan Africa
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spellingShingle	SAFETY NETS EMPLOYMENT LABOR MARKET UNEMPLOYMENT LABOR PRODUCTIVITY WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT GENDER INNOVATION LAB Bossuroy, Thomas Koussoube, Estelle Premand, Patrick Constraints to Productive Employment Faced by Safety Nets Beneficiaries in the Sahel : Results of a Multi-Country Qualitative Assessment
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description	In the Sahel subregion, which extends over Central and Western Africa, low labor productivity poses a challenge to poverty reduction, economic growth, and social stability. Social Safety Net Projects target the poorest households who derive their livelihoods from low-productivity activities. As such, they have the potential to improve labor productivity. As part of the Sahel adaptive social protection program (ASPP), the World Bank supports the design and implementation of productive accompanying measures for safety nets beneficiaries. This report sets out the results of a qualitative assessment of the constraints to productive employment that was conducted in the Social Safety Net Project areas, across five of the six countries covered by the ASPP: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Chad. This assessment identified the main challenges to productivity growth in farm and nonfarm sectors and, jointly with other surveys and local and regional consultations, helped define accompanying measures to safety nets programs aimed at increasing current employment productivity and generating more productive jobs.
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author	Bossuroy, Thomas Koussoube, Estelle Premand, Patrick
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title	Constraints to Productive Employment Faced by Safety Nets Beneficiaries in the Sahel : Results of a Multi-Country Qualitative Assessment
title_short	Constraints to Productive Employment Faced by Safety Nets Beneficiaries in the Sahel : Results of a Multi-Country Qualitative Assessment
title_full	Constraints to Productive Employment Faced by Safety Nets Beneficiaries in the Sahel : Results of a Multi-Country Qualitative Assessment
title_fullStr	Constraints to Productive Employment Faced by Safety Nets Beneficiaries in the Sahel : Results of a Multi-Country Qualitative Assessment
title_full_unstemmed	Constraints to Productive Employment Faced by Safety Nets Beneficiaries in the Sahel : Results of a Multi-Country Qualitative Assessment
title_sort	constraints to productive employment faced by safety nets beneficiaries in the sahel : results of a multi-country qualitative assessment
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Constraints to Productive Employment Faced by Safety Nets Beneficiaries in the Sahel : Results of a Multi-Country Qualitative Assessment

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