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Special economic zones in Southern Africa : white elephants or latent drivers of growth and employment? : the case of Zambia and South Africa
Phiri, Mwanda; Manchishi, Shimukunku - 2020
The successful use of special economic zones as economic tools for export-led industrial development in East Asia propelled a wave of similar initiatives across Africa. In Southern Africa, Zambia and South Africa instituted special economic zones in their respective legal and institutional...
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The African lions : Kenya country case study
Kimenyi, Mwangi S.; Mwega, Francis M.; Ndung'u, Njuguna S. - 2015
This paper mainly analyses the drivers of economic growth in Kenya and the linkages to the labour market dynamics, with a focus on population growth, its structure, and the prospects of reaping a demographic dividend. This is in recognition that Kenya, as the ninth largest economy in Africa and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411141
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Between past and future of Latin America : lessons from Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic
Cardoso, Eliana A. - 2010
This paper provides a synthesis of the four papers on the Latin American and Caribbean economies: Brazil, Chile, Costa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663075
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s : Chile country study
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2015
During the 2000s Chile achieved rapid economic growth and improved most labour market indicators: the unemployment rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334072
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Policy regimes, inequality, poverty and growth : the Chilean experience, 1973 - 2010
Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo - 2012
Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time … 1990s, resulting from better economic and social policies in the return to democracy. Nonetheless, Chile still faces … significant challenges to improve development. There must be an active macroeconomic policy focused on the real economy. Chile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408448
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Structural transformations and the lack of inclusive growth : the case of Chile
Solimano, Andrés; Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2019
This paper describes the structural transformations that Chile has experienced in the last 50 years and how they have … worrisome and could negatively affect Chile's ability to achieve structural transformations towards higher and more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161611
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Promoting women's economic empowerment through productive employment and social protection
Otobe, Naoko - 2014
The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women's economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO's perspectives on gender dimensions of employment promotion (involving income generation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358804
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The success of learnerships? : lessons from South Africa's training and education programme
Rankin, Neil; Roberts, Gareth; Schöer, Volker - 2014
Vocational training programmes, like South Africa's learnership programme, which combine classroom learning and on-the-job training seem like the type of intervention which can create skills, get young people into jobs quicker, and reduce youth unemployment. This paper uses a longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337692
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987108
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Youth in Tanzania's urbanizing mining settlements : prospecting a mineralized future
Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2014
Over the last fifteen years many African countries have experienced a "mining take-off". Mining activities have bifurcated into two sectors: large-scale, capital-intensive production generating the bulk of the exported minerals, and small-scale, labour-intensive artisanal mining, which, at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228733