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This article is the first to provide estimates of how minimum wages affect worker flows and employment growth rates in an employment scarce developing country context. We investigate the effects of a large, exogenous increase in agricultural minimum wages in South Africa. We find that changes...
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– Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa between 2008 and 2017
Longitudinal surveys allow us to understand how markers of (dis)advantage determine present material welfare and economic upward or downward mobility over time. In this paper, we use five waves of panel data to empirically assess the extent and dynamics of poverty in South Africa between 2008 and...
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This study explores the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa on income poverty and inequality in South Africa. Using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model with input datasets that were adjusted to reflect people’s earned incomes just before the pandemic (March 2020)...
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– Direct evidence using transaction data
This paper provides the first direct systematic evidence of profit shifting through transfer mispricing in a developing country. Using South African transaction-level customs data, the author directly tests for transfer price deviations from arm's-length pricing. It is found that multinational firms...
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– African Context and the Case of Kenya
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Aid for Gender Equality and Development
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– Australian Aid Partnership with Churches in Papua New Guinea
Part of Journal Special Issue
Aid, Social Policy and Development
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Aid, Social Policy and Development
The UNU-WIDER Special Issue aims to address collectively the following questions: (1) What are the principles and facts that have underpinned the evolution of bilateral and multilateral social sector aid over the past 25 years? In particular, how pro-poor has aid to the social sectors been? (2) What...
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– The Political Economy of Effective Aid
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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– UNICEF‘s Education Programme in Somalia
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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– Improving Representation and Responsiveness in a Post-Conflict Setting
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
Journal Article
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– Finn Church Aid‘s Secondment in Somalia
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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– Selected Success When Stars Align. Public Financial Management Reforms in Sierra Leone
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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– An Effective Community-Based Approach amid Political Instability
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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– Assessing the Effects of Community-Driven Development in Afghanistan
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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