The Driving Force of the Informal Sector for Economic Growth - Spotlight on the Jua Kali Industry10/27/2022  Figure 1: Jua Kali Artisan at Work (Source: Business Daily Africa) The informal sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is a booming and prominent part of national economies. It provides goods and services to both urban and rural communities, and plays a complimentary role by filling gaps the government and private sector fail to fill (Rohregger, et al., 2021). Governments' inability to increase employment opportunities, an overwhelming lack of international competition in the private sector and low levels of education and training have all attributed to the informal sector’s dominance over the formal sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (Turkson, Amissah, & Gyeke-Dako, 2020).
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