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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...