Social Income in South Africa, An Economy Marred by High Unemployment, Poverty and Extreme Inequality
by METH, C, 2008Research Report. Centre for Poverty Employment and Growth, Human Sciences Research Council
Disagreements about the severity of poverty and inequality in South Africa have stimulated debate on the social wage. Given extreme measurement difficulties, not much reliance can be placed on existing attempts to value the social wage. This paper proposes that income poverty measures be augmented to consider the impact of social spending on disposable income….
read more >>Leveraging Services for Employment, Growth and Equity – Access to Essential Services: The Global Context for Education, Health, Water and Sanitation
by PILLAY, P, 2005Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
As the Millennium Development Compact argues, the first cluster of policies required for countries to break out of poverty traps involve investing in health and education. These investments contribute to growth and human development. Moreover, education, health, nutrition, and water and sanitation complement each other, with investments in any one contributing to better outcomes in…
read more >>Baseline Information on Poverty in the City of Tshwane
by ERASMUS, J.C. & WEIR-SMITH, , 2003Research report, Employment and Economic Policy Research, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria.
Welfare and safety nets are an integral part of the government’s response to poverty and inequality. The Division: Integrated Community Development in the Tshwane Metropolitan Council aims to ensure that the needs of women, children, youth, people with disabilities and older person are catered for in an integrated manner. The division commissioned the Human Sciences…
read more >>Determinants of Income Mobility and Household Poverty Dynamics in South Africa
by KLASEN, S. & WOOLARD I, 2005Journal of Development Studies 41(5).
This article analyses household income mobility among Africans in South Africa’s most populous province, KwaZulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared to industrialised and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high, as might have been expected after the transition in South Africa. This finding is robust when measurement error is controlled for. When disaggregating the…
read more >>Horizon Scanning in South Africa: Health and HIV and AIDS
by DANIELS, D.M., 2007Research report, Human Sciences Research Council report. Prepared for DFID.
South Africa has a mature HIV and AIDS epidemic, with 11% of the population having been infected. A review of possible scenarios provides insight into the outlook towards 2030. The Live the Future scenarios discussed here were based on two sets of branching points – who has the power, and what their goals are. Summer…
read more >>The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Health Sector. National Survey of Health Personnel, Ambulatory and Hospital Patients and Health Facilities
by SHISANA, O., HALL, E., MALULEKE, K.R., STOKER, D.J., SCHWABE, C., COLVIN, M., CHAUVEAU, J., BOTHA, C., GUMEDE, T., FOMUNDAM, H., SHAIKH, N., REHLE, T., UDJO, E., GRISSELQUIST, D., 2002South African Medical Journal, 94(10), 846. South African Department of Health and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Studies on HIV prevalence among health workers usually focus on occupational exposure to HIV, but little is known about the overall prevalence of HIV in this group. The aim of this study is to determine HIV prevalence among South African health workers. A stratified cluster sample was drawn of 5% of health facilities representative of…
read more >>Evaluation of the Sectoral Impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa: A Methodological Review
by VAN DEN HEEVER, A., 2003Research report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, HSRC. Prepared for USAID, AusAID and DFID and the Joint Centre for Economic and Political Studies, September 2003
The impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the employed environment within South Africa is largely unknown, with little in the way of reliable information provided from surveys. More attention is needed to understand the likely impact of the disease on the labour force and on individual economic sectors. This paper has the following purpose: *…
read more >>Leveraging Services for Employment, Growth and Equity: Access to Essential Services in Education and Health. Synthesis Paper
by PILLAY, P., 2005Research Report, Employment Growth & Development Initiative, Human Sciences Research Council
A key impediment to growth in South Africa is the relative shortage of high-quality human capital, manifested as part of the unequal distribution of assets in the country. International evidence shows that an unequal distribution of assets, especially of human capital, hampers overall growth and disproportionately affects the income growth of the poor. Attaining optimal…
read more >>Creating a learning culture in rural schools via educational satellite television broadcasts.
by ROODT, J. & CONRADIE, P., 2003"Presented at the Globalisation, Regionalisation and the Information Society- A European and South(ern) African encounter 9 – 10 October 2003 Bruges, Belgium"
Globalisation is increasingly placing greater pressure on economies of countries to become competitive and to develop a higher levels of skills. In order to compete effectively on a global level, education and development must be based on a good foundation. Although formal education in South Africa is presently reaching the majority of children between the…
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