Employing workers, difficulty of redundancy index - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators



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The difficulty of firing index has 8 components: (i) whether redundancy is disallowed as a basis for terminating workers; (ii) whether the employer needs to notify a third party (such as a government agency) to terminate 1 redundant worker; (iii) whether the employer needs to notify a third party to terminate a group of 25 redundant workers; (iv) whether the employer needs approval from a third party to terminate 1 redundant worker; (v) whether the employer needs approval from a third party to terminate a group of 25 redundant workers; (vi) whether the law requires the employer to reassign or retrain a worker before making the worker redundant; (vii) whether priority rules apply for redundancies; and (viii) whether priority rules apply for reemployment. For the first question an answer of yes for workers of any income level gives a score of 10 and means that the rest of the questions do not apply. An answer of yes to question (iv) gives a score of 2. For every other question, if the answer is yes, a score of 1 is assigned; otherwise a score of 0 is given. Questions (i) and (iv), as the most restrictive regulations, have greater weight in the construction of the index. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/. Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
Employing workers, difficulty of redundancy index - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2009)

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Country

Value

1Gabon80
2Tunisia80
3Angola70
4Guinea-Bissau70
5Equatorial Guinea70
6Democratic Republic of the Congo70
7Cameroon70
8Republic of the Congo70
9Cape Verde70
10Egypt60
11Zimbabwe60
12Sao Tome and Principe60
13North Africa57.50
14Senegal50
15Sierra Leone50
16Ghana50
17Seychelles50
18Central African Republic50
19Tanzania50
20Morocco50
21Niger50
22Sudan50
23Africa41.76
24Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria41.11
25Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa40.65
26Sub-Saharan Africa40.43
27Benin40
28Mali40
29Botswana40
30Comoros40
31Mauritania40
32Algeria40
33Mauritius40
34Liberia40
35Chad40
36Togo40
37Gambia40
38Madagascar40
39Djibouti30
40Ethiopia30
41Rwanda30
42South Africa30
43Kenya30
44Burundi30
45Ivory Coast20
46Eritrea20
47Guinea20
48Namibia20
49Malawi20
50Swaziland20
51Mozambique20
52Nigeria20
53Zambia20
54Burkina Faso10
55Lesotho0
56Uganda0
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