Abstract: The major cause of poverty is unemployment. This paper looks at aspects of the way government responds to … claims that are made, chiefly by academics, about poverty and unemployment. Official statistics on poverty and unemployment … enjoy little favour among senior politicians and civil servants. ‘Unofficial’ poverty and unemployment statistics, by …

While in many African countries open unemployment is largely confined to urban areas and thus overall rates are quite … low, in South Africa open unemployment rates hover around 30%, with rural unemployment rates being even higher than that …. This is despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system and little labour market regulation that …

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 …

Measures of unemployment and poverty have tended to focus solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty … of becoming unemployed or falling into poverty, our standard measures of unemployment and poverty do not accurately … line. This approach has ignored the members of society that are vulnerable to becoming unemployed or falling into poverty …

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 …