Informal sector: ECA in West Africa to address the challenge of formalization

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa , through its Sub-Regional Office for West Africa, organized from 4 to 5 May in Lomé, Togo, a meeting of West African experts to review the draft study report on the theme

The general objective of this meeting was to collect contributions and comments from national and regional experts in order to enrich the results of the study. For his part, the Head of the Sub-Regional Initiatives Section of the ECA Office in West Africa, Amadou Diouf said:"With an average contribution of more than 36% to GDP and 62% to employment in Africa over the period 2010-2018, the importance of the informal sector in creating wealth and improving the living conditions of the population calls for reforms and innovative and contextualized policies to achieve an informal sector that fully contributes to economic growth and decent job...

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