The informal sector, an inclusive development engine adapted to African economies

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Dn industrialized countries, it has become the custom to consider labor markets as the place where supply and demand meet. However, in an African environment where self-employment and micro-entrepreneurship constitute the dominant mode of integration into the labor market, the very border between labor supply and demand becomes blurred.

Informality is the norm in Africa.

The norm is a border moving. The norm indeed has an axiological dimension that must be considered and respected. It is the same for African economies, which are flourishing, somehow in the informal sector[1]. In this analysis, it is not a question of apologizing for informality but of presenting it as an alternative for inclusive development and structural transformation of Africa.