infrastructure. While unemployment and enforced idleness" persist, existing time-use survey data reveal that people around the …

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 …

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 …

political economy and was addressed by numerous poverty-eradication and rural development programmes that emerged and evolved …

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 …

in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …-sharing among the poor is prevalent. It seems reasonable to posit that in such an economy more unemployment leads to more income … increases unemployment rates. As corollaries, we show that (1) within the same society, two different racial groups that may be …

Stagnant economic growth, decreasing investment and high unemployment remain consistent macroeconomic challenges for … growth GDP. Contrariwise, the first model indicates that unemployment (UNEMP) does not influence economic growth (GDP) in the …

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 …

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 …