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Title: An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for South Africa
Condition: New
Author: Robert Pollin, Léonce Ndikumana, Gerald A. Epstein, James Heintz
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1847201180
EAN: 9781847201188
ISBN: 9781847201188
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Genre: Business & Finance
Release Date: 23/02/2007
Description: The people of South Africa, and the African National Congress-led government, have made extraordinary social and economic advances since ending apartheid and beginning the transition to democracy in 1994. But the country still faces severe problems of mass unemployment, underemployment and poverty. This study, sponsored by the United Nations Development Program, presents a detailed economic program designed to produce major reductions in unemployment and poverty, and a general spreading of economic well-being, and to achieve these ends in a manner that is sustainable over a longer-term framework.

The 'employment-targeted' program developed here builds from standard policy tools and initiatives already undertaken by the government in the areas of macroeconomic policy, development banking and large-scale credit subsidies, labor-intensive public investments, and social welfare expenditures. The authors introduce these measures alongside specific proposals in the areas of fiscal budgetary control, inflation control and exchange rate management.

Students and scholars of development economics will find this analysis of South Africa's economy, and the authors' plan for stimulating job growth, of great interest.

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