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Revisiting the impact of direct taxes and transfers on poverty and inequality in South Africa
Maboshe, Mashekwa; Woolard, Ingrid D. - 2018
of fiscal policy on income redistribution, and poverty in South Africa. We find, in accordance with previous research …, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …
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Social distress and (some) relief: Estimating the impact of pandemic job loss on poverty in South Africa
Bassier, Ihsaan; Budlender, Joshua; Goldman, Maya - 2022
Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty …-loss-induced poverty: a headcount ratio increase at the upper-bound poverty line of 5.2 percentage points (3.1 million people/13 per cent …
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Are biofuels good for African development? An analytical framework with evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Msangi, Siwa; Thurlow, James - 2010
Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their dependence on imported fossil fuels, but also stimulate economic development, particularly in poorer rural areas. Skeptics, on the other hand, view biofuels as a threat to food...
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Assessing the impact of social grants on inequality: A South African case study
Schiel, Reinhard; Leibbrandt, Murray; Lam, David - 2014
The democratic government in South Africa has developed a system of social grants to combat the high levels of poverty … poverty. On the other hand income inequality has remained stubbornly high in post-apartheid South Africa and the role of these … that the social assistance awarded to the elderly has contributed dramatically to the decline in poverty but has not …
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Does food insecurity impact subjective evaluation of well-being? Evidence from a developing country
Akpalu, Wisdom; Christian, Aaron K.; Codjoe, Samuel Nii … - 2015
Understanding the relationship between food insecurity and subjective evaluation of well-being is critical in designing social welfare policies, especially in developing countries. Surprisingly, literature on the topic is scarce. This study adopted Van Praag's theoretical framework and used...
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Social protection in an aspiring 'developmental state': The political drivers of Ethiopia's PSNP
Lavers, Tom - 2016
Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme is among the largest social protection programmes in Africa and has been promoted as a model for the continent. This paper analyses the political drivers of the programme, arguing that elite commitment can be understood in the context of shifts within...
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Economic impacts of developing a biofuel industry in Mozambique
Hartley, Faaiqa; van Seventer, Dirk Ernst; Tostão, Emilio - 2016
Mozambique is one of the most promising African countries for producing biofuels and the national biofuel policy of 2009 identifies measures to incentivize biofuel production. Demand for biofuels in the Southern African Development Community is expected to increase over the next few years as 7...
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Contracts between smallholders and private firms in Mozambique and their implications on food security
Navarra, Cecilia - 2017
The focus of this paper is the role played in rural contexts by contract farming agreements between smallholders and private investors. These contracts can take different forms, but in general are agreements under which producers commit to supply produce to a buyer firm. They are - at least on...
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India's political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007 - 08: Learning some lessons
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support prices of wheat and rice were raised substantially. The urea price increases in global markets were absorbed through enhanced fertilizer subsidies. The government launched the...
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COVID-19 and informal work: Degrees and pathways of impact in 11 cities around the world
Chen, Martha Alter; Grapsa, Erofili; Ismail, Ghida; … - 2022
This paper presents findings from two rounds (2020 and 2021) of a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across five regions of the world (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America). The study, carried out by the WIEGO network in...
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