Documents et rapports
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The impact of public health spending on poverty and inequality in South Africa (anglais)
This study reviews the impact of public health spending on poverty, and, inequality, in South Africa, and examines how sector expenditures are distributed across socioeconomic groups, races, and regions...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 19333 Date du document: 28 février 1999 Auteur: Castro-Leal,Florencia T.
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Women workers in South Africa : participation, pay and prejudice in the formal labor market (anglais)
The report examines gender differences in the formal labor market participation in South Africa, based on the 1994 October Household Survey, and determines the factors that underlie these differences...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 19752 Date du document: 28 février 1999 Auteur: Winter,Carolyn
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Review of public expenditures : efficiency and poverty focus (anglais)
This paper analyzes: a) recent trends in public expenditure components to understand their contribution to South Africa's level of development; b) the functional, sectoral, intra-functional and intra-sectoral...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 19334 Date du document: 28 février 1999 Auteur: Swamy,Gurushri N.,Ketley,Richard P. T.
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Poverty issues for zero rating value-added tax (VAT) in South Africa (anglais)
Value added taxes potentially distort consumer behaviors less than many forms of indirect taxes and may therefore be comparatively efficient in generating government revenues. However, they involve some...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 19336 Date du document: 28 février 1999 Auteur: Alderman,Harold H.,Del Ninno,Carlo
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Safety nets and income transfers in South Africa (anglais)
This paper review the country's four main safety nets: old age pensions, maintenance grants for children, food-based transfer programs, and tax exemptions on commodities primarily consumed by the poor...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 19335 Date du document: 28 février 1999 Auteur: Alderman,Harold H.
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Poverty and inequality in the distribution of public education spending in South Africa (anglais)
The study explores the distribution of all public education resources across socioeconomic, and demographic groups in South Africa. The Benefit Incidence Analysis was the methodology used to measure the...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 19330 Date du document: 28 février 1999 Auteur: Castro-Leal,Florencia T.
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Violence and poverty in South Africa : their impact on household relations and social capital (anglais)
This paper examines the complex interrelationship between the violence-poverty-apartheid nexus. Using secondary data, it provides a brief historical analysis of how apartheid policy, was well as the struggle...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 19891 Date du document: 28 février 1999 Auteur: Moser,Caroline O.