The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

Manufacturing has traditionally been regarded in the development literature as having special growth-pulling or growth … been growing. This study focuses on the Hirschmanian channels through which sectoral growth can lead or support aggregate … economic growth, using input-output tables to investigate intersectoral linkages in the South African economy. Manufacturing is …

reductions. The mode for recycling carbon tax revenues strongly influences distributional outcomes, with tradeoffs between growth …

While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is …