An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for South Africa - Couverture rigide

Pollin, Robert; Epstein, Gerald A.; Heintz, James; Ndikumana, Léonce

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1847201180 ISBN 13 : 9781847201188

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Pollin and Gerald A. Epstein, Professors and founding Co-Directors, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Léonce Ndikumana, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, US

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847201180
• ISBN 13: 9781847201188
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible