South Africa’s Rigidity of employment index (0 least rigid to 100 most rigid), in 2006 was 41. Lowest was Uganda at 7, and joint highest were Guinea-Bissau and Niger, at 77 each. (African Development Indicators, 2007, World Bank)

This week’s theme: South Africa and neighbours

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