Making a Living in Sudan: Wages, Inequality and the Road to Recovery
Omdurman market, 14 August 2009. Photograph: Petr Adam Dohnálek, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 CZ. Unmodified historical photograph, not a picture of present conditions; no income or employment status is inferred about the people shown. Recovery has to reach the household A salary can rise while the life it buys becomes smaller. A business can reopen without providing regular work. A household can receive money from a relative abroad and still be one illness away from having to sell an essential asset. These are different problems, and a recovery plan that puts them all under the heading of “jobs” will struggle to solve any of them well. ...