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15 June 2004
Economic Growth without Poverty Reduction: Identifying the Missing Links in Tanzania during Economic Reform
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Anders Danielson
- Countries and Regions Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa)
Studying the relation between economic growth and income poverty reduction without taking changes in the distribution of income into consideration is like setting up Othello without Iago in the play. Without any further references to Shakespeare, this paper examines the relations between poverty levels, economic growth and changes in inequality in Tanzania during…"
15 June 2004
Alleviating Rural Poverty through Efficient Small Holders Farming Systems in Ethopia: Relevance of Macro Policies
- Year 2004
- Author(s) DK Grover; Anteneh Temesgen
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Ethiopia is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. The country had a real per capita GDP of less than US $100 in 1995, and over 60 per cent of its population lives in absolute poverty. The problem of rural poverty and underdeveloped agriculture are closely linked with both…"
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Afeikhena Jerome
- Countries and Regions Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Despite the perceived role of efficient infrastructure as critical element for economic growth, poverty reduction and the attainment of the millennium development goals, there is clear evidence that the provision of infrastructure in Africa has been much below standard in terms of quantity and quality. Over the past decade, there has been a…"
15 June 2004
Estimating Utility Consistent Poverty Lines
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Channing Arndt; Kenneth Simler
- Countries and Regions Mozambique
The "Cost of Basic Needs" (CBN) approach to drawing consumption based poverty lines is widely applied and lays credible claim to being the best practice for estimating poverty measures. Unfortunately, a growing mass of evidence indicates that poverty estimates obtained under the CBN approach are often demonstrably utility inconsistent. Here, we introduce an…"
15 June 2004
Swaziland: In the Pursuit of Economic Liberalization and Growth. How Poverty is Reproduced at the Micro-level
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Gabriel Tati
- Countries and Regions Swaziland
Why is poverty so pervasive in Swaziland despite substantial economic growth achieved through extreme economic openness over several years? Is poverty alleviation in Swaziland a more reachable goal than was in the past, as this country strives to restore rapid economic growth through AGOA facilitating greater insertion into the global commodity market chains?…"
15 June 2004
The Conjuncture of Poverty Microsimulation Linked to a Macroeconomic Forecasting Model: A Case Study in Senegal
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Thierry Latreille
Poverty reduction policies have become the main guidelines of economic policies in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Therefore the authorities need new social indicators in order to follow the application and the effectiveness of their policies. In recent years renewed efforts have been made to develop new policy tools aimed at better understanding the…"
15 June 2004
The Demand for Education for Orphans in Zimbabwe
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Craig Gundersen; Thomas Kelly; Kyle Jemison
- Countries and Regions Zimbabwe
We examine the effect of orphan status on school enrolment in Zimbabwe, a country strongly impacted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic with a rapidly growing population of orphans. Using data from 2003, after controlling for other determinants of enrolment we find that orphans are less likely to attend school than non-orphans. The result is…"
15 June 2004
Geography as Destiny: Considering the Spatial Dimensions of Poverty and Deprivation in South Africa
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Ronelle Burger; Servaas van der Berg; Sarel van der Walt; Derek Yu
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The persistence of geographical inequalities is an intriguing puzzle. Many explanations have been offered for why specific geographies flourish while other regions deteriorate.Some have highlighted the impact of natural constraints, like the limited availability of arable land,distance from the sea and the prevalence of disease. Others have stressed the importance of the impact…"
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Geeta Kingdon; John Knight
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The conventional approach of economists to the measurement of poverty in poor countries is to use measures of income or consumption. This has been challenged by those who favour broader criteria for poverty and its avoidance. These include the fulfilment of 'basic needs', the 'capabilities' to be and to do things of intrinsic…"
- Year 2004
- Author(s) Anna McCord; Dirk van Seventer
- Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper examines the performance of public works in addressing both micro and macroeconomic policy objectives relating to growth, employment and poverty reduction in South Africa. Survey data on the micro-economic impact of public worksprogramme participation is used alongside a social accounting matrix (SAM) for the South African economy which models the impact…"
01 December 2003
Extending Telecoms Ownership in South Africa: Policy, Performance and Future Options
The reform of the telecommunications sector in the mid-1990s had as one of its areas of focus an expansion of access to telecommunications - both at the household ownership and the broader access levels. This paper examines the performance of policies around ownership and suggests alternative options for the future. It finds that…"
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Centre for Real Economy Study (Crest)
- Year 2003
- Author(s) Nicoli Nattrass
There are two major economic and social security challenges facing South Africa: addressing large-scale unemployment and the AIDS pandemic. As of 2003, an estimated 14% of all South Africans were HIV-positive, with over a thousand people dying each day of AIDS. According to the government household and labour-force surveys conducted from the mid-1990s…"
- Year 2003
- Author(s) Erik Thorbecke
Our understanding of the concept of poverty has improved and deepened considerably in the last three decades or so following Amartya Sen's seminal work. We possess presently the analytical tools to identify and locate the poor, to describe their characteristics and to measure the extent of poverty at different levels of aggregation. Yet,…"
15 June 2003
An Overview of the Performance and Potential of Public Works Programmes in South Africa.
- Year 2003
- Author(s) Anna McCord
- Countries and Regions South Africa
The South African economy is unable to deliver employment for a growing number of would-be workers, especially among the unskilled. There is a need for state intervention to address this failure, and public works have been identified in the national policy discourse as a central policy response, to address both the problem of…"
- Year 2003
- Author(s) Marna Kearney
Poverty in South Africa is severe. Zero-rating food can possibly reduce poverty as poor households spend the largest proportion of their income on food. Zero-rating food can also reduce the regressiveness of Value Added Tax (VAT) for the same reason. However, zero-rating food will results in a loss in revenue for government. Zero-rating…"
- Year 2003
- Author(s) Neil Coleman
- Countries and Regions South Africa
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- Year 2003
- Author(s) Lindiwe Khumalo
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Poverty is multi- faceted and can be manifested in hunger, unemployment, exploitation and lack of access to clean water, sanitation, health-care and education. Poverty is not confined to any one racial group in South Africa, but it is concentrated amongst Blacks, particularly Africans. There is a need to monitor poverty and the poverty…"
- Year 2003
- Author(s) Rosa Dias; Charles Meth
- Countries and Regions South Africa
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- Year 2003
- Author(s) Ingrid Woolard
- Countries and Regions South Africa
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15 June 2003
Deep Cuts? Social Service Delivery under GEAR
- Year 2003
- Author(s) Albert Van Zyl; Carlene Van Der Westhuisen
- Countries and Regions South Africa
Under Government's GEAR policy, high levels of expenditure on social services (i.e. Social Development, Health, Education and Housing), failed to bring about a reduction in poverty and unemployment. The Government, in particular the National Treasury, blamed this outcome on the inefficiency in the delivery of social services. The "Left", especially COSATU and its…"