The Scramble for Africans: Demography, Globalisation and Africa’s Informal Labour Markets
揭示非洲劳动力市场表面繁荣（低失业率、中产阶级壮大）背后隐藏的灾难性青年失业和非正式经济扩张现实，探讨为何非洲成为非正式劳动比例最高的大陆却被描绘成繁荣灯塔。
Images of an 'African Boom' have presented us with labour markets full of dynamic potential: a declining dependency ratio; low levels of unemployment; and a vibrant middle class. This buoyant view of African labour markets conceals a less encouraging reality of catastrophic youth unemployment and expanding informality. How has the continent known for the world's highest share of informal labour become a beacon of prosperity? This article will explore the reality beneath the outbreak of informal economic optimism, and consider why African labour markets are being painted in such rosy colours.