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    Inequality and economic marginalisation: How the structure of the economy impacts on opportunities on the margins

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    In the face of a long-standing unemployment crisis that increasingly threatens social and economic stability, employment has at last taken centre stage in South African policy, and with this, focus is shifting to the structural constraints on employment creation within the economy. The New Growth Path, approved by Cabinet in November 2010, starts to tackle these issues.
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    How the state and private sector can partner to boost support to SMEs: Lessons from Chile & Malaysia

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    For South Africa, the promotion of small businesses remains key to creating jobs and a more equitable economy. Evidence from Chile and Malaysia – both countries with similar emerging economies as South Africa - reveals that by partnering to provide finance and business support, the government and the private sector can boost support to small businesses.
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    An appraisal of local economic development impact assessment methodologies in the Context of the Community Work Programme (CWP)

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2013
    The Community Work Programme (CWP) aims to provide an employment ‘safety net’ that provides access to a minimum level of regular work on an on-going and predictable basis for those who require it the most unemployed and underemployed people at the local community level.
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    Predicted poverty impacts of expanding the Community Work Program me in South Africa: an analysis of income poverty and inequality

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012
    The Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), which guarantees low-skilled work to poor, unemployed individuals and in the process contributes to the creation of productive community assets and services.
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    Manufacturing employment and equality in South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    In  2014, South Africa remained one of the most unequal countries in the world, an outlier by global standards in terms of both overall inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient and levels of joblessness. For proponents of industrialisation as central to long-term development, this situation raises two questions.
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    The geographic designation of Special Economic Zones

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    Special economic zones (SEZs) emerged internationally as a policy to support industrial development in particular by providing for the introduction of targeted incentives and infrastructure. Internationally, despite their name, they are often effectively delinked from specific geographic areas in order to achieve these aims.
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    The state of land use management in South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    In contemporary South Africa, land use management may be considered to be a crucial, but weak link in the transformative project attempted by the overall land management system, and planning activity in general. Land use management is increasingly recognised to have been a neglected area of engagement, and this neglect has had significant consequences.
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    Development of the urban development component for a second economy strategy: overview analysis

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Both in research and in practice there have been many ideas and interventions aimed at restructuring cities. In South Africa various programmes have been implemented to combat apartheid city form and address the needs of the urban poor. Amongst these the big projects and flagship programmes have had considerable success.
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    Employment intermediation for unskilled and low-skilled work seekers - part 1: overview of the Sector

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa. Growth has been inadequate, the skills level requirement of new jobs is continually rising, current skills among the workforce are low and inadequate numbers of low end, unskilled jobs are being created.
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    Missing the trget: business development support to the second economy

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    The second economy refers to the people who are in a marginalised relationship to the mainstream economy. There is a complex but interrelated link between the second and the first economy which needs to be understood.

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