Browsing by Author "Meth, Charles"

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    Half Measures: The ANC's Unemployment and Poverty Reduction Goals
    (2004-12) Meth, Charles
    Simulations suggest that under the most optimistic conditions, halving the official rate of unemployment would require 3.7 million jobs to be created between 2004 and 2014. Halving the number of expanded unemployed under pessimistic assumptions about the growth rate of the economically active would require 11 million jobs in the same period.
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    Sticking to the Facts: Official and Unofficial Stories about Poverty and Unemployment in South Africa
    (2007-06) Meth, Charles
    The major cause of poverty is unemployment. This paper looks at aspects of the way government responds to claims that are made, chiefly by academics, about poverty and unemployment. Official statistics on poverty and unemployment enjoy little favour among senior politicians and civil servants.