From Market Stalls to Mechanic Shops: Better Jobs for Côte d'Ivoire's Urban Youth
Street vendors, taxi drivers, hairdressers, metal workers, repair shops - Côte d’Ivoire’s towns and cities bustle with small-scale enterprises. They make up the urban informal sector, where businesses operate without formal registration and workers have limited access to social protection. This sector has become a vital source of livelihoods and job creation in Côte d’Ivoire, where formal employment opportunities have not kept pace with a rapidly growing urban population. The urban informal sector employs nearly 7 million workers, more than either agriculture or the formal sector. And ...
Source: worldbank.org