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- ItemOpen AccessAspects of South African state welfare policy : a study in public finance and income redistribution(1986) Hendrie, Delia Verbara; Simkins, CharlesInternational redistribution studies vary in scope from those which investigate the full range of all benefits and costs of the fiscal system to others restricting their coverage to the distributive impact of a single expenditure or tax. In South Africa relatively little research has been directed to the distributive consequences of state spending and taxing policies. The few existing studies have mainly concentrated on race as an explanatory variable in analyzing budget incidence. This thesis adopted a new technique of measuring the incidence of benefits obtained from state spending and the burdens imposed by tax payments. The first step involved constructing household-level microdata files for sample households. Secondly, allocation routines were developed for selected expenditures and taxes whereby the benefits and costs of fiscal action could be assigned to households. Lastly these routines were applied separately to the files of each household. The distributive effects of the expenditures and taxes could then be analyzed with respect to any relevant household variable.
- ItemOpen AccessA cost-effectiveness analysis of the tuberculosis control procedures applied in the Cape Divisional Council area(1987) McIntyre, Diane; Archer, Sean; Simkins, CharlesThis study evaluates the costs and effectiveness of preventive and curative procedures currently available for Tuberculosis (TB) control purposes. The procedures examined are as follows : i) BCG vaccinations; ii) Secondary chemoprophylaxis; iii) Health education; iv) Mass screening campaigns; v) Investigation of contacts of infectious TB cases and symptomatic persons, i.e. suspects; and vi) Treatment regimens for notified TB patients. The analysis is largely based on data from the records of 300 randomly selected TB patients, treated at clinics in the Cape Divisional Council area in 1983. The major finding of this study is that resources available for TB control should be reallocated in the direction of secondary chemoprophylaxis, BCG vaccination administration in the Black and Coloured populations, investigation of contacts and suspects, and ambulatory treatment of notified TB patients. Conversely, vaccinating the White population, mass screening campaigns and hospitalisation of TB patients should be given relatively less emphasis in the overall TB control programme. In addition, the proportion of patients confirmed as TB cases by means of bacteriological examinations should be increased to reduce misdiagnosis.
- ItemMetadata onlyEmployment, unemployment and growth in South Africa 1961-1979(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2015-05-28) Simkins, Charles
- ItemMetadata onlyJustice, development and the national budget(Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2015-05-28) Simkins, Charles; Hendrie, D.; Abedian, Iraj; le Roux, P.