Namibia: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

April 28, 2006

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Namibia: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes unemployment and education in Namibia. Using the Afrobarometer Project survey data, the paper develops some stylized facts about the Namibian labor market, focusing on the link between education, earnings, and unemployment. The paper finds that unemployment probabilities depend on the level of education. The paper also describes the main features of poverty in Namibia and assesses the appropriateness of current as well as potential policies to alleviate poverty and reduce income inequality over time.

Subject: Economic integration, Education, Health, HIV and AIDS, Labor, Monetary unions, Pensions, Population and demographics

Keywords: Africa, Caribbean, Cash grant, CMA country, CR, GDP growth, Global, HIV and AIDS, Household income, Income, Income category, ISCR, Monetary unions, Namibia, Pensions, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Terms of trade, Unemployment, Unemployment yield estimate

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Pages:

111
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2006/153
Stock No:

1NAMEA2006002
ISBN:

9781451828429
ISSN:

1934-7685

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