Essays about: "on unemployment of south africa"

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1. 1. Education, Employability and Imagining the Future: A Minor Field Study of Goals and Motivations in a South African Small-Scale Development Programme

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Melina Pettersson; Julia Rönnbäck Finocchio; [2023]
   Keywords : Youth unemployment; Development; Education; Inequality; South Africa; Employability; Horizons of opportunity; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world, and that shows in the distribution of opportunities amongst South Africans. In the face of political failures to deliver improvements for unemployed youth NGO projects become more important avenues for young people to acquire resources needed to improve their lives. READ MORE

3. 2. The Debate of Decent Work in Emerging Economies: Minimum Wage Policy in South Africa.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Elliot Mackenzie; [2021]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : There exists considerable debate on the utility of ILO’s decent work agenda and its four pillars of full employment, rights at work, social dialogue, and social protection in the context of emerging economies. Whether these pillars be achieved in unison or if there a need to prioritize a pillar over another and whether the notion as a whole is complementary with other development objectives like economic growth is dependant on how an emerging economy understand the issue at hand, which is itself a function of the historical and socioeconomic context in which the labor markets exists within. READ MORE

4. 3. “They are being made into like baby-making machines” : a study of the impact of gender structures and norms on family planning for Xhosa women in rural Zithulele, South Africa

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Hannah Hölscher; [2020]
   Keywords : gender norms; gender roles; family planning; South Africa; rural; sexual health and reproductive rights; structural determinants of health; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Women in rural areas of South Africa battle with many structural issues, including unemployment, education and accessibility to health services, greatly delimiting family planning. However, socially constructed and internalized gender norms pose an additional and potentially greater barrier to family planning in traditional and patriarchal settings. READ MORE

5. 4. The Platinum Boom in Rustenburg and the Bust of the Community : A case study of the Natural Resource Curse in South Africa

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Hedvig Lagercrantz; Shima Khabbaz; [2019]
   Keywords : Boomtown; platinum; mining; social disruption; place attachment; social impacts; Rustenburg; South Africa;

   Abstract : The dependence on natural resources is not a new phenomenon and it has posed issues in undiversified economies. The social impact that the booming of the mining industry has on the local level is still an area in need of investigation. READ MORE

6. 5. Corridors to Opportunity: A Case Study of Johannesburg, South Africa

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Merve Demirel; Roshni Nandwani; [2019]
   Keywords : urban economics; gender; transport intervention; race; synthetic controls;

   Abstract : Transport equity is a powerful tool in the alleviation of transport poverty and has been gaining traction in policy discussion. Transport equity refers to the distribution of the costs and benefits of transport and the degree to which that distribution is fair or appropriate. READ MORE