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- Did South Africa start a debt-cycle?
- A. Freytag / Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
- Recent macroeconomic developments in South Africa have been judged positively, but skepticism is on the rise. Some observers are skeptical about the sustainability of the current account deficit. This study explains the development in...
- Four years on: assessing South Africa's Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) from 2004-2008
- T. I. Nzimakwe / Academic Journals, 2008
- In an effort to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the government of South Africa is implementing a number of programmes that address the country’s high rates of unemployment and poverty. One key initiative has been t...
- Views on the current financial crisis from the global South
- Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
- The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored it...
- Increasing poor people's bankability through cash transfer schemes
- A. Carpio; N. Riemenschneider / Oxford Policy Management, 2008
- Experiences from around show that building poor people’s capacities to accumulate assets for the long term is central to poverty reduction. In this process, household savings play a particularly significant role. Contrary t...
- The legacy of apartheid-era inequalities evident in current wage trends
- S. K. Ndungu / National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2008
- The continuing expansion of the wage gap in South Africa is the subject of this report. It examines wage and income trends in the period 1995-2005 in terms of racial background and sector of employment. Attention is particularly paid ...
- The failings of public-private partnerships in South Africa
- K. Bayliss / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
- The ongoing electricity crisis in South Africa is having serious consequences on the economy. Electricity supply is predicted to constrain growth for at least the next five years. How could this have occurred when until recently South...
- Exchange rate fluctuations more important to tackle than inflation
- T. McKinley / Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS, 2008
- As only the second central bank in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Bank of Ghana has adopted an inflation-targeting regime. This paper argues that this step is wrong and comes at a bad time as: rising prices in Sub-Sahar...
- Extending the South African pension scheme to cover all of the elderly population
- Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa, 2008
- The government of South Africa is undertaking retirement reform initiatives to establish a comprehensive social security system. The potential components of the system are a universal noncontributory system (or social assistance), a m...
- How Sub-Saharan Africa could integrate and promote development by attracting more FDI
- S. Ibi Ajayi / African Economic Research Consortium, 2006
- Despite a considerable increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in real terms, Africa's share of global FDI fell by over a half since 1970.FDI accounts for just one fifth of all capital flows to Africa and the continent rem...
- Systemic competitiveness for private sector development: the meta-level
- H. Büttner / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2007
- The concept of the meta-level of systemic competitiveness and how it relates to societal change are particularly relevant for bringing change towards private sector development in the context of development co-operation. Meta level fa...
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