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For this continent too one must lament the absence of wage statistics. In the words of an I.L.O. report: ‘it is extremely difficult to analyse closely the wage situation in African countries owing to the scarcity of available data’.1 There is also the customary neglect of wage policies in development plans. Although more than twenty African countries, accounting for nearly 70 per cent of the output of goods and services in the African continent excluding the Republic of South Africa, have now formulated their development plans, major surveys of them fail to contain a single reference to wages or wage policies.2
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I.L.O., Methods and Principles of Wage Regulation (Geneva 1964). Second African Regional Conference. Report III. Addis Ababa 1964. p. 17.
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Economic Bulletins, (Tun 1962) 21. 29–64: Tan 1964. pp. 39. 64.
E. J. Berg, ‘Backward-Sloping Supply Functions in Dual Economies: The African Case’, The Quarterly Journal of Economics (Aug 1961) 471.
W. Elkan, Migrants and Proletarians: Urban Labour in the Economic Development of Uganda (1960) 82.
I.L.O., Report to the Government of Ghana on Questions of Wage Policy, I.L.O./T.A.P./Ghana/R6 (Geneva 1962) 34.
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Smith, A.D. (1969). Africa. In: Smith, A.D. (eds) Wage Policy Issues in Economic Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00105-7_4
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