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This paper examines the macroeconomic policies and outcomes experienced by the Latin American economies during the period 1990-2010. Macroeconomic policies refer to exchange rates, monetary and aggregate fiscal policies, while macroeconomic outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of...
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This study analyses the performance of macroeconomic policy in South Africa in 2007- 2020 and outlines challenges for policy in the coming decade. After remarkable economic growth in 1997-07, South Africa's progress slowed dramatically in 2009 with the global financial crisis. Real GDP growth...
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The principal contribution of this paper is to investigate the relationship between policy uncertainty, caused by recent developments in international markets, and firms' trade margins for the largest economy in Africa: South Africa. In particular, using a unique database on the population of...
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This paper provides a retrospective assessment of the effects of trade policies on South African manufacturing since the transition to democracy, examining the differences and commonalities in the views of economists in favour of and against an acceleration of trade liberalization. Data from the...
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Poverty declined substantially in Mozambique between 1996/97 and 2014/15. However, the recent economic crisis, characterized by a significant increase in domestic prices, may have dragged several households into poverty. Using consumer price index and 2014/15 household budged survey data, we...
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informal employment and those where women are over-represented. The paper concludes with a reflection on what more needs to be …
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, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is … uncounted in the current System of National Accounts definition of labour. However, women still undertake less paid work than …
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Despite a sizeable literature on the labour market effects of maternity leave regulations on women in developed … countries, how these policies affect women's work in developing countries with a large informal sector remains poorly understood …. This study examines how extending the maternity leave requirement affects women's decisions to work in the informal or …
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We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help … men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider 'advantageous' states …
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This paper sets out to investigate the wellbeing of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It undertakes … spatial and temporal comparisons of women's wellbeing using data from the Demographic and Health Survey and the Multiple … improvement and deterioration of women's welfare across the DRC over a three-year period (2007 - 10). …
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