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Searching with a thematic focus on Finance policy in South Africa

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  Can South Africa afford to become Africa's first welfare state?

  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). The various financing scenarios suggested by the proponents of the grant are presented, and these are compared using an applied general equilibrium model
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  Case studies of private sector programmes to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

  Global Health Initiative, 2002

  Series of papers and background materials on private sector efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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  Rapid assessment of the private sector response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa

  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.
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  Shifting the burden: the private sector’s response to the AIDS epidemic in Africa

  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.
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  Poverty-eradicating Job Creation

  Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa, 1999

  This paper presents a macroeconomic framework underlying many policy proposals, by churches, labour, and non-governmental organisations.
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  Economic linkages between South Africa and Mozambique

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002

  The study tries to address, amongst other questions, what the weaknesses and strengths of integration of the two economies are.
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  Corporate accountability in search of a treaty? Some insights from foreign direct liability

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002

  This Briefing Paper looks at two sets of legal actions that attempted to secure transnational corporate accountability. The cases are examples of increasing efforts to establish ‘foreign direct liability’ – holding parent companies accountable in home country courts to people affected by their environmental, social or human rights impacts in other countries.
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  Economic Report on Africa 2002: tracking performance and progress

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2002

  How did Africa’s economy perform in the global economic downturn of 2001?
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  When do the rich willingly pay income tax?

  Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2002

  Brazil and South Africa have much in common. In particular, they are both large middle income countries with very high levels of income inequality where whites historically have dominated over blacks.They differ markedly in terms of the significance of income tax. Relatively little income tax is collected in Brazil (4% of GDP).
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  Prospects for financial sector reform in the context of regional integration in SADC

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2001

  This paper looks at the role that SADC can realistically play in developing the financial systems of the countries of Southern Africa.

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