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The fuel of unparalleled recovery: Monetary policy in South Africa between 1925 and 1936
(Routledge, 2021)
The newly established South African Reserve Bank (SARB) was tasked to protect the currency by navigating the interwar gold standard, and, from March 1933, maintaining parity with the Pound Sterling. We find that South ...
Sophia’s choice: Debt, social welfare, and racial finance capitalism
(SAGE, 2021)
In this article, I examine normative assumptions about cash transfers as public goods and the lived
experience of cash transfers as private debts. Policy makers and social scientists often assume
cash transfers are ...
‘The nurse did not even greet me’: how informed versus non-informed patients evaluate health systems responsiveness in South Africa
(BMJ Global Health, 2021-04)
Introduction Universal Health Coverage is not only
about access to health services but also about access
to high-quality
care, since poor experiences may deter
patients from accessing care. Evidence shows that quality
of ...
Revisiting the COVID-19 vulnerability index in South Africa
(Routledge, 2021)
This study uses the Census 2011 and Community Survey 2016 data,
adopts the Alkire-Foster multidimensional poverty index (MPI)
approach and addresses numerous shortcomings of the original
Statistics South Africa method ...
Employed yet poor: Low-wage employment and workingpoverty in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2020)
Working poverty exists worldwide and has shown an increase inprevalence over the past few decades. Over the years, there hasbeen an increase in the number and severity of low-wageemployment, which in turn contributes ...
Investigating volunteer activities in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
This is the first South African study that analysed all three availablewaves of Statistics South Africa’s Volunteer Activities Survey data,which was linked to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey in the third quarter of the ...
Investigation of the youth informal entrepreneurship landscape in South Africa
(Unisa Press, 2022)
The South African economy is characterised by high and continuously rising youth unemployment levels and rates. While countervailing interventions have been attempted in the formal sector, support for youth employment and ...
Defining and measuring time poverty in South Africa
(Routledge, 2023)
This study primarily adopted the absolute approach to examine time poverty in South Africa by analysing the 2000 and 2010 Time Use Survey data. The findings indicated that absolute time-poor individuals were predominantly ...