South Africa and Finance policy
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- Helping municipalities work with the private sector: a salutary experience from South Africa
- Janelle Plummer / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Affermage contracts allow a private operator to deliver services with a greater degree of freedom than is possible with a management contract. What regulatory and institutional framework is required for this complex form of public pri...
- In two minds - should the private sector provide long-term psychiatric care?
- Kimberley Porteus; Lucy Gilson / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- What is the best way to care for people with chronic mental disorders? Do public or private institutions provide the most cost- effective services? Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand undertook a cost- quality analysis of s...
- Income distribution for development - more or less equal?
- Frances Stewart / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Despite the developmental progress of recent decades, developed and developing countries alike are experiencing widening income inequality. But how does income distribution affect economic growth? And to what extent does economic grow...
- Foreign direct investment: bringing jobs and new skills to southern Africa?
- Carolyn Jenkins; Lynne Thomas / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Is foreign direct investment (FDI) set to contribute to economic growth and poverty alleviation in the states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)? Are investor fears of instability and the slow progress in creating a ...
- How has private sector involvement in natural resource management affected communities in Southern Africa?
- A. Spenceley / Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
- Looks at how changing institutional arrangements and policies affect poor people's livelihoods and access to natural resources. It addresses tourism in South Africa, and the growing role of the private sector in natural resourc...
- Plans for reforming social security systems in South Africa
- J. Thurlow / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- This paper assesses the economy-wide impact of implementing and financing a universal or basic income grant (BIG) in South Africa ( a grant recommended by the Taylor Committee investigating the current system's merits and shortcomings...
- Private sector role in combating HIV, TB and malaria among their workers
- Global Health Initiative, 2002
- Series of papers and background materials on private sector efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The case studies are intended to be a tool to facilitate greater engagement by companies by illustrating examples of the...
- Are businesses avoiding shouldering the burden of HIV/AIDS?
- S. Rosen; J. Simon / Department of International Health, Boston School of Public Health, 2003
- As the economic burden of HIV/AIDS increases in sub-Saharan Africa, allocation of the burden among levels and sectors of society is changing. The private sector has more scope to avoid the economic burden of AIDS than governments, hou...
- How is South African business responding to HIV/AIDS?
- South Africa Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, 2003
- This site presents the results of a survey of business responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The concise version of the results are presently separately along the following subject divisions: prevention treatm...
- Promoting social investment in South Africa
- M. Samson; I. van Niekerk; N. Bovula / Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa, 1999
- This paper presents a macroeconomic framework underlying many policy proposals, by churches, labour, and non-governmental organisations. The core of the proposal addresses a “virtuous circle” of growth arising out of social ...
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