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Skills and youth entrepreneurship in Africa : analysis with evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli; Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2014

The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing the gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a model of costly firm creation and skill differences...

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Who benefits from job training programmes? : evidence from a high-dosage programme in Brazil

Mata, Daniel da; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho; Silva, … - 2021

Using admission lotteries and registry data linking labour market outcomes, we study the effect of a vocational training programme focused on disadvantaged individuals in Brazil. The intensive programme is an 18-month classroom training coupled with a 6-month on-the-job training provided by...

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Poverty and wellbeing impacts of microfinance : what do we know?

Maîtrot, Mathilde; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …

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The effects of the Employment Tax Incentive on South African employment

Ebrahim, Amina; Leibbrandt, Murray V.; Ranchhod, Vimal - 2017

South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive, launched in 2014, aimed to address low youth employment by reducing the cost of hiring young workers. We make use of anonymized tax administrative data from the 2012-2015 tax years to examine the effect of the Incentive on youth employment. We match firms...

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Can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment? : evidence from South Africa

Ebrahim, Amina; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2019

The paper examines the incidence and employment impacts of the Employment Tax Incentive, a South African wage subsidy system that is targeted at the employers of low-wage youth. The paper uses a triple differences strategy and survey and administrative data, covering the universe of South...

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Employer characteristics and youth employment outcomes in the formal sector in South Africa : assessment using administrative tax data

Ngandu, Stewart; Chisadza, Carolyn - 2018

Through the use of administrative tax data, this study attempts to identify the characteristics of firms that employ relatively large numbers of young people. The policy objective of this exercise is to use these insights to inform policy and programming in the context of youth unemployment,...

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Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in Ghana : a micro-level analysis

Danquah, Michael; Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Ohemeng, Williams; … - 2020

addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the …

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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 estimates, simulating incomes in prepandemic household...

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Consequences of aid volatility for macroeconomic management and aid effectiveness

Hudson, John - 2012

This paper reviews both the literature on aid volatility and also adds to that literature. In general, the focus of this literature has been on the volatility of overall aid, while we focus more on the volatility of the individual aid sectors, e.g., education aid. In doing this, detailed use is...

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Non-traditional aid and gender equity : evidence from million dollar donations

Osili, Una Okonkwo - 2013

This paper investigates the role of non-traditional aid in meeting global challenges in improving gender equality and gender-related socioeconomic needs in the twenty-first century. We define non-traditional aid as private donations from individuals, foundations, and corporations and use a newly...

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