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– What Is Missing from National Economic Recovery Plans?
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COVID-19 and the Informal Economy
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– Accounts from Residents of Cape Town’s Largest Township
From the book:
COVID-19 and the Informal Economy
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– Differentiated Impacts and an Uneven Recovery
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COVID-19 and the Informal Economy
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Tasks, Skills, and Institutions
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– South Africa’s Kuznetsian tension
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The Developer’s Dilemma
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IntroductionThe South African youth wage subsidy started in 2014 to increase employment and create jobs for low-wage youth. The subsidy was temporarily raised in value and expanded to reach more workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the lockdown period, the government used the subsidy to curb...
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– Social transfers in South Africa during the coronavirus national lockdown, 2020
This case study details the policy choices and decisions of the South African government to provide economic relief, through social grants, to vulnerable South Africans and those resident in South Africa to enable them to withstand the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The first phase of this...
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– The South African experience
Introduction: data for development Globally, one of the key factors associated with increasing use of data to inform policy-making has been the increased availability of new administrative data sources. In 2014, the National Treasury of South Africa (NT) pioneered the development of new tax...
Book Chapter
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– The top-end, labour markets, fiscal redistribution and the persistence of very high inequality
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Inequality in the Developing World
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– The case of South Africa
What has the government of South Africa done with respect to COVID-19 measures of mitigation and suppression? The first COVID-19 positive case was confirmed on 5 March 2020. Just ten days later, South Africa had 61 positive cases and President Ramaphosa addressed the country, calling for measures to...
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Industries without Smokestacks
Book Chapter
From the book:
Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Book Chapter
From the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2.As an upper middle-income country within Africa, South Africa often attracts specific interest in terms of its economic growth and development dynamics. Often under-appreciated, is the extent to which the system of apartheid has...
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– Lessons from South Africa’s Training and Education Programme
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African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization
Book Chapter
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Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability
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– Lessons from Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius, and South Africa
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Achieving Development Success
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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– An Augmented Endowments-Inequality Hypothesis and the Rise of an Elite in the Cape Colony
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The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Urbanization and Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
The Rise of China and India
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– Poverty and Distribution Trends in an Era of Globalization
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– What Opportunities for Other Developing Countries?
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Southern Engines of Global Growth
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– What Lessons Have Been Learnt since the East Asian Crisis in 1997/98?
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Southern Engines of Global Growth
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From the book:
Southern Engines of Global Growth
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