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    Unravelling the impact of the global financial crisis on the South African labour market

    International Labour Organization, 2010
    South Africa, Africa’s largest economy, fell into recession half way through 2008, with job losses numbering almost 900,000. Real GDP growth in the third quarter of 2009 suggested that the South African economy was exiting recession. But the South African labour market is unlikely to improve rapidly because of the typical lag between economic and employment recovery.
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    Bargaining with grandma: the impact of the South African pension on household decision making

    Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2011
    The expansion of the South African old age pension is interesting to economists firstly because extent to which this money effectively increases the well-being of those who receive it is an important question for a policymaking, but also as the pension is distributed on an individual, not household, level and is given to both men and women.
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    Poverty transitions among older households in Brazil and South Africa

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011
    The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households
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    Analysis of unmatched data using propensity scores: cross-section analysis

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2010
    How can we derive the relationship between “ownership of information and communication technology” (ICT) on the one hand, and income defined as a multiple of the poverty line on the other hand? This study provides evidence of the impact of ICTs on poverty for a deliberately selected sample of sites from the poorest areas in four African countries (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda).
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    Pensions for life?: id21 insights, issue 42

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    The 1990s could well qualify as the decade of global pension reform. A number of countries in Latin America and some transition economies radically transformed their pension provision and moved swiftly towards privately provided individual retirement plans.
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    Escaping poverty Can policy reach the chronically poor?: id21 insights, issue 46

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    The past few years have seen remarkable consensus on and commitment to poverty reduction from governments around the world. This has resulted in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which seek to reduce global absolute poverty by 50 per cent by 2015 and to reduce other forms of human deprivation. Articles included:
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    Beyond the BICs: identifying the ‘emerging middle powers’ and understanding their role in global poverty reduction

    Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010
    Much attention has been focused on the BICs (Brazil, India and China) and how they are changing global politics and economics. However, there is also a further tier of emerging middle powers ‘beyond the BICs’ that are playing a more prominent role in regional and global arenas.
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    South Africa’s way ahead: shall we samba?

    Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa, 2010
    This publication examines the trading implications of extending the current preferential trading agreement (PTA) between the Southern African Custom Union (SACU) and MERCOSUR to a full free trade agreement (FTA).
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    An analysis of inflation from a central banking perspective: the South African experience since 1921

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2008
    This paper states that the problem of inflation in South Africa has occurred in different forms and has occupied the attention of monetary authorities over many years. The paper deems that inappropriate economic policy and monetary policy in particular, contributed to conditions conducive for the development of inflationary conditions.
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    Headship of older persons in the context of HIV/AIDS in rural South Africa

    Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, 2009
    This paper examines older persons’ living arrangements in an area with 32% HIV-prevalence in South Africa. The paper concentrates on headship as a measure of position, and explores how households’ composition and experience of a death differ across headship types.

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