Publication: Insights from Surveys on Business and Enterprises in South Sudan: Jobs, Recovery, and Peacebuilding in Urban South Sudan – Technical Report IV
Date
2020-10-21
ISSN
Published
2020-10-21
Author(s)
Finn, Arden
von der Goltz, Jan
Abstract
This study assesses jobs in businesses
and NGOs in the towns of South Sudan. It is based on a 2019
business survey that includes informal and micro
enterprises, as well as a dedicated survey of foreign-owned
businesses. The business community is typical of a
low-income post-conflict country, but with a particularly
weak productive sector and an outsize importance of NGOs and
foreign-owned businesses. Two in five commercial businesses
are foreign-owned; they employ far more South Sudanese than
foreign nationals, and source some inputs locally, though
they could become more important customers. NGOs employ one
in five workers in businesses, and while UN and aid agency
procurement is a minor source of demand in Juba, it is a
major factor in smaller markets, for food and personal
services. Business obstacles focus on insecurity, lack of
demand (including due to inflation), no access to finance,
and electricity. The study is one of a set of four reports
assessing different aspects of jobs in urban South Sudan in
order to formulate policy for recovery.
Citation
“Finn, Arden; von der Goltz, Jan. 2020. Insights from Surveys on Business and Enterprises in South Sudan; Insights from Surveys on Business and Enterprises in South Sudan : Jobs, Recovery, and Peacebuilding in Urban South Sudan – Technical Report IV. Jobs Working Paper;No. 53. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34666 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”