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notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. … tuberculosis notifications were found with unemployment, overcrowding and number of shebeens per enumerator sub-district. High …
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In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …
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In form of a qualitative single case study this thesis examines what people from industrialized countries such as Germany can learn about sustainability from Lynedoch EcoVillage, South Africa, and the associated 'Sustainability Institute', a non-profit trust based at and operating from Lynedoch...
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freedom and an escape from poverty. Since this transition, however,South Africa has registered steady increases in … unemployment, which was already high andwidespread at that stage. The new policy environment introduced a mix of legislation …, socioeconomic and labour market disparities. Economic growth was to bolsteremployment generation. Rising unemployment is, in light …
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The negative impact of poverty on development and security in South Africa has been exacerbated by high food prices …, poverty alleviation is compatible with running a profitable organisation. …
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we then combine to arrive at estimates of overall poverty from 1970 to 2000. However, data for the last few years of this … that these estimates are worst case estimates of poverty trends after 1995. An alternative, less pessimistic estimate is … to arrive at overall estimates of inequality and poverty; next we discuss the trends in poverty as derived from our data …
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tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the …’s economic empowerment: the labour market, education and poverty. Large and complex data sets on peoples’ attitudes and … greater in transition than in OECD countries.On the other hand, once the feminisation of poverty is concerned data on …
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Modell mit skill mismatch und endogener Jobzerstörung zu einer längeren erwarteten Dauer des der Arbeitslosigkeit folgenden … Arbeiterflüsse in die Arbeitslosigkeit während einer Rezession der Rückgang der Einstellungsneigung von Firmen ist, was auch aus dem … raising unemployment benefits in a model with endogenous job destruction and skill mismatch leads to a longer expected …
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relation between the job–finding rate and the vacancy–unemployment ratio, provided that search costs are small and that search …
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