Towards Employment-Intensive Growth in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards Employment-Intensive Growth in South Africa write by Anthony Black. This book was released on 2016-07-01. Towards Employment-Intensive Growth in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. South Africa’s high rate of unemployment (26.4%) makes it a complete outlier compared with other middle-income countries. Indeed, the unemployment rate rises to 36% if discouraged workers are taken into account. It underpins extreme poverty and inequality and is a major contributor to social dislocation. If it were not for increased social payments, poverty would have continued to increase since the advent of democracy in 1994. Unemployment also represents a huge cost to growth. This book focuses on the growth path of the economy. The starting point is that while more rapid economic expansion is an important objective, at any given level of growth, the economy as a whole needs to become more labour-absorbing. The central question posed is how to bring about changes in the economic structure and pattern of development, which would lead to the attainment of this objective. The authors argue that employment needs to be much more centrally positioned within the economic and social policy arena. They emphasise innovative approaches within a broader focus on the growth path, and employment-intensive growth. And they posit that the negative impact of previous ‘distortions’ requires much more than a levelling of the playing field via market-based reforms. Apart from presenting an alternative growth path which could start to shift the economy in new directions, the book tackles themes which have received only limited attention, such as wage subsidies, youth unemployment and employment growth in rural areas.
Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces
Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces write by Lesley Coote. This book was released on 2016-11-10. Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following in the tradition of recent work by cultural geographers and historians of maps, this collection examines the apparently familiar figure of Robin Hood as he can be located within spaces that are geographical, cultural, and temporal. The volume is divided into two sections: the first features an interrogation of the literary and other textually transmitted spaces to uncover the critical grounds in which the Robin Hood ’legend’ has traditionally operated. The essays in Part Two take up issues related to performative and experiential space, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between page, stage, and lived experience. Throughout the volume, the contributors contend with, among other things, modern theories of gender, literary detective work, and the ways in which the settings that once advanced court performances now include digital gaming and the enactment of ’real’ lives.
An Employment-targeted Economic Program for South Africa
An Employment-targeted Economic Program for South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Employment-targeted Economic Program for South Africa write by Robert Pollin. This book was released on 2007-02-23. An Employment-targeted Economic Program for South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Investment in South Africa is low, real interest rates are high, the employment-intensity of growth has been relatively slow. The "employment-targeted program" advocated in this book seeks to reverse these tendencies by lowering average interest rates and channeling subsidized credit to labor-intensive, pro-poor activities, particularly small-scale agriculture and small and medium-sized enterprises. This is a bold program and by challenging conventional "inflation-targeted" economic policy, the book makes a major contribution to the debate on economic policy in South Africa.' - Keith B. Griffin, University of California-Riverside, US The people of South Africa, and the African National Congress-led government, have made extraordinary social and economic advances since ending apartheid and beginning the transition to democracy in 1994. But the country still faces severe problems of mass unemployment, underemployment and poverty. This study, sponsored by the United Nations Development Program, presents a detailed economic program designed to produce major reductions in unemployment and poverty, and a general spreading of economic well-being, and to achieve these ends in a manner that is sustainable over a longer-term framework.
Approaches to Employment Creation in South Africa
Approaches to Employment Creation in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaches to Employment Creation in South Africa write by Jill Nattrass. This book was released on 1984. Approaches to Employment Creation in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Accelerated Land Reform, Mining, Growth, Unemployment and Inequality in South Africa
Accelerated Land Reform, Mining, Growth, Unemployment and Inequality in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Accelerated Land Reform, Mining, Growth, Unemployment and Inequality in South Africa write by Nombulelo Gumata. This book was released on 2020-01-03. Accelerated Land Reform, Mining, Growth, Unemployment and Inequality in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The overarching goal of South Africa’s National Development Plan (NDP) is to eliminate poverty, reduce inequality, lower unemployment and increase the labour participation.This book contributes to academic and policy efforts to achieve these NDP goals. We establish that the coal, metal ores and the platinum group commodity sectors will underpin the mining as a “sunrise” industry. The export-led growth strategy is necessary for intensive employment creation but must be complemented by other micro, macroeconomic and industrial policies. A strategy of minerals beneficiation is important for intensive employment creation. Accelerated land reform is a supply side or structural reform policy intervention tool aimed at increasing potential output, changing ownership patterns in the economy, increasing entrepreneurship, labour absorption, economic inclusion and lowering income inequality. Evidence shows that the balance sheet channel, commodity price booms and busts are intricately linked with the exchange rate dynamics, policy uncertainty, confidence and the effects of droughts (also symptoms of climate change). Productivity and investment growth shocks matter for output, employment and price stability. Evidence indicates that nominal GDP growth above 10 percent and keeping inflation within the target band leads to significant increase in employment and decline in unemployment, without inflationary pressures, especially when inflation is below 4.5 percent. To operationalise the NDP targets, align and co-ordinate policies, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) mandate can be expanded to include maximum employment. This must be complemented by lowering the inflation target band, adjusting the financial regulatory, macro-prudential and monetary policy frameworks. This will enhance the conduct and credibility of monetary and financial stability policies to achieve the set objectives. These objectives make policy co-ordination pertinent and binding.
