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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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    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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    Responding to new pressures: Ithala Limited's changing role in serving the 'unbanked' and the poor in KwaZulu-Natal

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2009
    Since the apartheid-era, South Africa has operated government-supported development finance institutions (DFIs) that aim specifically to meet the financing needs of poor individuals and communities that are traditionally considered to be uncreditworthy.
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    Pension reform and old age grants in South Africa

    University of Pretoria, 2007
    The absence of a mandatory tier of the South African contributory system makes it unique from an international perspective. Furthermore, the absence of any form of state provision (or delivery) of an earnings-related retirement system is unusual.
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    The private affairs of public pensions in South Africa: debt, development and corporatization

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2009
    Toward the end of its rule, the apartheid government in South Africa converted its contributory pension system for employees in the public sector from one that effectively functioned as a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) scheme to a fully funded scheme.
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    Pensions in Africa

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    In sub-Saharan Africa less than 10% of the older population has a contributory pension. This paper discusses why the development of pension systems is important for the African region. It also looks at the current pension arrangements in selected African countries: Botswana, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia
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    Addressing unemployment and poverty through public works programmes in South Africa

    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 the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), launched in May 2004 for a period of five years.

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