Since the onset of economic downturns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have struggled with uneven recoveries across sectors, as some types of workers and industries were better able to resume their activities than others.
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Safeguarding the environment and its citizens’ health remains one of the key policy priorities of the governments of many developing and emerging countries.
In trying to limit the spread of COVID-19, policymakers are confronting the difficult task of balancing the positive health effects of lockdowns against their economic costs — particularly the burdens imposed on low-income and food-insecure househ
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked not only a health crisis but also an economic crisis, which together pose a serious threat to food security, particularly in poorer countries.
It is too soon to assess the full economic impacts that COVID-19 lockdowns will have on developing countries. But early research indicates that many African economies are significantly impacted and that poorer households are struggling.
This chapter investigates the conceptual and empirical linkages between social grants and agricultural entrepreneurship among rural households in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
South Africa milestones to achieving the sustainable development goals on poverty and hunger
South Africa has signed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and placed poverty and inequality reduction at the forefront of its National Development Plan.
The main objective of this report is to identify interventions that work and recommend options for policies and programs to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in all its forms.
Bargaining with Grandma: The impact of the South African pension on household decision-making
Examines how an exogenous change in individual income affects decisionmaking in the household
Pro-poor tax policy changes in South Africa
"Since 1994, the South African government has committed to increasing economic growth and reducing poverty and inequality. Tax policy has been the most important instrument at its disposal to meet these objectives.
Gender analysis of the policy responses to high oil prices
Introducing carbon taxes in South Africa
Revisiting wage subsidies
Food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa