IMF: Ethiopia's GDP to hit $78B this year, Kenya at $75B


The World Factbook β€” Central Intelligence Agency
 
Informal jobs= desperate juakali and chokoras.
We are talking about the upper tier informal employment here. Not the variety jobs u seem to have in mind. The reason Kenya has less pipo living below a dollar a day, even with the high unemployment.
 
Informal jobs= desperate juakali and chokoras.
Kenya has the highest informal sector employment among nine countries covered in a new report by the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Africa.

Employment in the sector stands at 77.9 per cent of the total ahead of Rwanda’s 73.4 per cent, Uganda’s 59.2 and Tanzania’s 8.5 per cent. In Egypt, Liberia, Madagascar, Mauritius and South Africa, the sector offers jobs to 51.2, 49.5, 51.8, 9.3 and 17.8 per cent of workers, respectively.
 

The question is, what're those informal jobs?

Kenya has highest informal jobs in Africa

β€œMost of these workers operate under a high degree of informality and vulnerability, resulting in small and unpredictable incomes, poor working conditions and low productivity. Such informality is likely to trap people into poverty,” says the report.
 


Look at that huge multitude of the pipo living below a $1.25 a day in Tanzania. The highest in Africa? Perhaps.
Just look at where they have plotted that on the graph.

How comes, if indeed the unemployment rate is lower in Tanzania.

We have already discussed about this in the old posts of the thread, no need of repetition.
 
Does that explain why 80% of Tanzanians live below $1.25 a day? High living expenses.

Hamna hoja ya msingi hapo na takwimu zako feki. Nikija na picha na video za maisha halisi ya Wakenya mtaanza kulia.
 




If only these Tanzanians were engaging in such informal jobs as painting, capentary, plumbing, electrical repairs, cleaners, baking, tailoring, electronic and phone repairs, small scale manufacturing ie soap making, footwear, jewellery making, foodstuff selling, beauty products, hair making, barbing, vehicle repairs, carving, private tutoring etc etc...........even hawking isnt a very bad idea.

They are all self employed, at times working from home.

Dont be so narrow minded. Informal employment does not just refer to those shady businesses, though they are also categorized as part of the informal sector, ie drug dealing or prostitution.

But informal sector refers to earning a living thru self employment, however, tge activities in the informal economy take place outside of government regulation or recordkeeping.
We understand the disadvantages of this, key of which they do not pay taxes to tge govt.
 
Hamna hoja ya msingi hapo na takwimu zako feki. Nikija na picha na video za maisha halisi ya Wakenya mtaanza kulia.
Statistics dont lie. And they do not imply that poverty doesnt exist in Kenya.



But this..........?!


 
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