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Public works programmes (PWPs) are widely used social protection instruments in low- and middle-income countries. Participants carry out temporary, labour-intensive works in exchange for cash or in-kind compensation. The available empirical evidence indicates that these programmes are usually...
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infrastructure. While unemployment and enforced idleness" persist, existing time-use survey data reveal that people around the …
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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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We assess how one of the largest public works programmes in the world-Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)-affected violent conflict and civil unrest. Using difference-in-differences methods and linking administrative and geocoded conflict event data, we find that the PSNP did not...
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Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide … that policy interventions such as PWPs may be able to mitigate the effects of early poverty on cognitive skills formation …
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political economy and was addressed by numerous poverty-eradication and rural development programmes that emerged and evolved …
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In this paper, the impact of stock market development on unemployment in South Africa has been empirically examined … using time-series data from 1980 to 2019. The study was motivated by the high level of structural unemployment facing the … the other hand. The study aims to add value to the finance-unemployment literature by using a range of stock market …
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High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …
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sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would … in unemployment signifies a more accurate reflection of disguised unemployment that already existed in the mid-1990s …
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High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of … unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near … complete absence of an unemployment insurance system. In South Africa unemployment stood at 23% in 1997 and the unemployed have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262445