Background of Supply Chain Finance -- Model of Credit Empowerment -- Developement Stages of Credit Empowerment -- Technical and Legal foundation of Digital Debt Instruments -- Credit Empowerment Practice Based on Digital Debt Instruments -- Introduction of Supply Chain Finance Solutions -- Risk...

In this paper we analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in South Africa?s most populous province, Kwazulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared to industrialized and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high, as might have been expected after the transition in...

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....

Manufacturing has traditionally been regarded in the development literature as having special growth-pulling or growth-enhancing properties. The share of manufacturing in GDP has been declining slightly over time in South Africa, while that of services has been growing. This study focuses on the...