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The labour market and poverty impacts of COVID-19 in South Africa

Bassier, Ihsaan; Budlender, Joshua; Zizzamia, Rocco; … - In: The South African journal of economics 91 (2023) 4, pp. 419-445

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Social distress and (some) relief : estimating the impact of pandemic job loss on poverty in South Africa

Bassier, Ihsaan; Budlender, Joshua; Goldman, Maya - 2022

Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty …-loss-induced poverty: a headcount ratio increase at the upper-bound poverty line of 5.2 percentage points (3.1 million people/13 per cent …

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The (urban) poor and employment creation

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Towards employment-intensive growth in South Africa

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Enhancing public works programmes : sustainable impact through participatory asset creation and digitalisation

Burchi, Francesco; Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2025

Public works programmes (PWPs) are widely used social protection instruments in low- and middle-income countries. Participants carry out temporary, labour-intensive works in exchange for cash or in-kind compensation. The available empirical evidence indicates that these programmes are usually...

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