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View article: Tax and Gender: Why Informality Matters
Tax and Gender: Why Informality Matters Open
Recent policy debates have increasingly focused on the gendered impacts of taxation, yet much of this work is rooted in high-income contexts, overlooking the realities of low- and middle-income countries where most individuals, particularl…
View article: Simplified Taxation in Africa: What We Know – and Need to Know
Simplified Taxation in Africa: What We Know – and Need to Know Open
Most economic operators in Africa are small and informal firms that fall under the purview of presumptive or simplified tax regimes (STRs). These taxes are expected to fulfil a range of functions, from raising revenue to facilitating forma…
View article: Gendered labour market outcomes among South African technical and vocational education and training (TVET) completers
Gendered labour market outcomes among South African technical and vocational education and training (TVET) completers Open
South Africa’s post-school education and training (PSET) system plays an important role in addressing historical inequalities and preparing youth for the labour market. Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges have s…
View article: The Price of Simplicity: Skewed and Regressive Taxation in Accra’s Informal Sector
The Price of Simplicity: Skewed and Regressive Taxation in Accra’s Informal Sector Open
International and domestic policymakers often hope that informal economies represent an ‘untapped goldmine’ for government coffers. However, growing evidence suggests that these claims are often severely overstated, ignoring the payments t…
View article: The Price of Simplicity: Skewed and Regressive Taxation in Accra’s Informal Sector
The Price of Simplicity: Skewed and Regressive Taxation in Accra’s Informal Sector Open
International and domestic policymakers have long assumed that informal economies represent an ‘untapped goldmine’ for government coffers. While recent research has highlighted that many informal businesses do pay a range of formal and inf…
View article: Informal Employment and an Inclusive Recovery
Informal Employment and an Inclusive Recovery Open
Throughout 2021, fiscal stimulus packages were introduced to jump-start the ‘post-pandemic’ economic recovery process. While calls for economic recovery packages that promise to ‘build back better’ have come from many directions, the under…
View article: South Africa’s Informal Economy and COVID-19
South Africa’s Informal Economy and COVID-19 Open
This chapter seeks to identify the differentiated impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on specific groups of informal workers. The analysis draws on official, nationally representative labour force surveys collected quarterly by Statistics South…
View article: COVID-19 and Informal Work
COVID-19 and Informal Work Open
This chapter presents findings from two rounds (2020, 2021) of a panel study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across 5 regions of the world (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North Americ…
View article: Impact of COVID-19 on patients with metastatic breast cancer: REthink Access to Care and Treatment survey results
Impact of COVID-19 on patients with metastatic breast cancer: REthink Access to Care and Treatment survey results Open
Aim: Patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) may be vulnerable to changes in healthcare management, safety standards and protocols that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.Materials & methods: The REthink Access to Care & Treatment …
View article: Informal employment: what is missing from national economic recovery plans?
Informal employment: what is missing from national economic recovery plans? Open
Throughout 2021, fiscal stimulus packages were introduced to jump-start the COVID-19 'post-pandemic' economic recovery process. While calls for economic recovery packages that promise to 'build back better' have come from many directions, …
View article: Informal sector employment and poverty in South Africa
Informal sector employment and poverty in South Africa Open
We examine the role that informal sector employment plays in poverty reduction using data from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). Using a Shapley decomposition approach, wefind that government transfers and formal sector jobs are t…
View article: The COVID-19 crisis and the South African informal economy: A stalled recovery
The COVID-19 crisis and the South African informal economy: A stalled recovery Open
This paper seeks to identify the differentiated impacts of the crisis on specific groups of informal workers. The analysis draws on official nationally representative labour force surveys collected quarterly by South Africa's national stat…
View article: Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and unpaid care work on informal workers' livelihoods
Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic and unpaid care work on informal workers' livelihoods Open
The COVID‐19 pandemic triggered a health, economic and care crisis affecting all workers, including those in the informal economy. This article uses data from the first round of a mixed‐methods longitudinal study conducted in June/July 202…
View article: Measuring human capital in South Africa using a socioeconomic status human capital index approach
Measuring human capital in South Africa using a socioeconomic status human capital index approach Open
The Human Capital Index (HCI) developed by the [World Bank, 2018a. The human capital project. World Bank. https://hdl.handle.net/10986/30498 Accessed 26 February 2019] provides a measure which can be used to study human capital (HC) produc…
View article: COVID‐19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities
COVID‐19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities Open
This article presents the findings for 11 cities across five geographical regions from a study led by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, investigating the impacts of the COVID‐19 crisis on different groups of informa…
View article: The Triple Crisis: Impact of COVID-19 on Informal Workers’ Care Responsibilities, Paid Work and Earnings
The Triple Crisis: Impact of COVID-19 on Informal Workers’ Care Responsibilities, Paid Work and Earnings Open
The COVID-19 pandemic can be understood as a triple crisis. At its origin it is a public health crisis\nand government responses to contain the virus through lockdowns, border closures and social\ndistancing have led to an inevitable econo…
View article: Informal Workers See a Long Road to Recovery Ahead — Unless Governments Act
Informal Workers See a Long Road to Recovery Ahead — Unless Governments Act Open
Data from the first round of the study shows the following common patterns across worker groups\nand continents: 1. Workers experienced a sudden and massive drop in earnings, which had severe consequences\nfor workers and their households.…
View article: (Re)conceptualising poverty and informal employment
(Re)conceptualising poverty and informal employment Open
There are roughly 839 million working poor in developing countries who survive on less than $2/day and about 80 per cent are employed in the informal economy. The conventional poverty approach therefore tends to frame the informal economy …
View article: Siyakha Nentsha, a mentor-led multi-component intervention, enhances social, health and financial assets of rural South African young people
Siyakha Nentsha, a mentor-led multi-component intervention, enhances social, health and financial assets of rural South African young people Open
A nationally-accredited social, health and financial skills program was delivered by trained local secondary school graduates, semi-randomized to rural grade 10-11 classrooms, produced significant increases in girls’ social capital, saving…
View article: Gender and informal livelihoods
Gender and informal livelihoods Open
Purpose This paper explores the perceptions and experiences of women and men who work as informal waste collectors in four different cities. The purpose of this paper is to map out how and to what extent occupational, political-legal, econ…
View article: Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South Africa : (re-)examining the links using national panel survey data
Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South Africa : (re-)examining the links using national panel survey data Open
One explanation for the increasing prevalence of stunting in South Africa over the past 15 years while other development indicators have improved is that Big Food retail chains have been contributing to a low quality diet across the countr…
View article: Estimating the Current and Future Skills Demand of Government's National Growth and Development Policies
Estimating the Current and Future Skills Demand of Government's National Growth and Development Policies Open
Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP), Report 33, funded by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)
View article: Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South Africa:(re)-examining the links using national panel survey data
Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South Africa:(re)-examining the links using national panel survey data Open
One explanation for the increasing prevalence of stunting in South Africa over the past 15 years while other development indicators have improved is that Big Food retail chains have been contributing to a low quality diet across the countr…