Over the years, South Africa has made significant investments aimed at transforming the
agricultural sector to deliver on rural economic development and job creation. These …

While South Africa has made significant improvements in basic and tertiary education
enrollment, the country still suffers from significant challenges in the quality of educational …

Objectives Existing literature on how employment loss affects depression has struggled to
address potential endogeneity bias caused by reverse causality. The COVID-19 pandemic …

Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and
businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic …

Since 1994, the democratic government in South Africa has worked hard at improving the
lives of the black majority, yet close to half the population lives in poverty, jobs are scarce …

This paper estimates the impact of electrification on employment growth by analyzing South
Africa's mass roll-out of electricity to rural households. Using several new data sources and …

Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to
democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced …

We quantify the labor supply responses of prime-aged adults to the presence of pensioners
in their households, using longitudinal data collected in South Africa. We compare …

We investigate the micro-level determinants of labour force participation of urban married
women in eight low-and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan …

Orientation: South Africa is experiencing growth in its graduate labour force, but graduate
unemployment is rising with the overall unemployment rate. Graduate unemployment is …