Africa: Uniting formal and informal economies

Charles Dan is Africa Director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the UN agency responsible for promoting and supporting worldwide labour rights. In a debate on job creation at the World Economic Forum on Africa, Dan called for a breaking-down of barriers between formal and informal economies. In a similar line of thinking, when other panelists fell silent on the problem of large levels of structural unemployment on the continent, Dan offered as a solution the growth of the social and solidarity economy. Read this interview with Dan on