Unemployment and aids: The social-democratic challenge for South Africa

Development Southern Africa

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-108

  Nattrass, Nicoli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; HEALTH CARE; LABOR POLICY; UNEMPLOYMENT; WELFARE PROVISION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 2142770358     PISSN: 0376835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0376835042000181435     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. ACTUARIAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA (ASSA), undated. ASSA 2000 Interventions Model. Available online at www.assa.org.za
2. BARBERTON, N, 2000. Budgeting concerns around the care dependency grant and rough estimates of the cost of extending the grant to children affected by HIV/Aids. Revised input paper to the workshop on 'Social assistance policy for children with disabilities and chronic illnesses'. Child Health Policy Institute, Cape Town, May.
3. BHORAT, H, 2002. A universal income grant scheme for South Africa: an empirical assessment. Paper presented at the 9th International Congress of the Basic Income European Network, Geneva.
4. BOOYSEN, F, 2002. Financial responses of households in the Free State province to HIV/Aids-related morbidity and mortality. South African Journal of Economics, 70(7):1193.
5. BOOYSEN, F, VAN RENSBURG, D, BACHMAN, M, ENGELBRECHT, M & STEYN, F, 2002. The socio-economic impact of HIV/Aids on households in South Africa: results of a study in Welkom and QwaQwa, Free State Province. AIDS Bulletin, 11(1). Available online at www.mrc.ac.za/aids/march2002/economic.htm
6. BOULLE, A, 2003. Capacity requirements for scaling up of antiretrovirals. Presentation at the seminar on 'Scaling up the use of antiretrovirals in the public health sector: what are the challenges?'. School of Public Health and Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1 August.
7. BOULLE, A, KENYON, C & ABDULLAH, F, 2003. A review of antiretroviral costing models in South Africa. In Moatti, J, Coriat, B, Souteyrand, Y, Barnett, T, Dumoulin, J & Flori, Y (Eds), Economics of Aids and access to HIV/Aids care in developing countries: issues and challenges. Paris: ANRS (French National Agency for Aids Research).
8. CAPE TIMES, 16 May 2003a.
9. CORTAZA, R, 1997. Chile: the evolution and reform of the labour market. In Edwards, S & Lustig, N (Eds), Labor markets in Latin America: combining social protection with market flexibility. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
10. DESMOND, C, MICHAEL, K & GOW, J, 2000. The hidden battle: HIV/Aids in the household and community. South African Journal of International Affairs, 7(2): 39-58. Eager Report, 1999. No. 10, Spring.
11. FEDDERKE, J & MARIOTTI, M, 2002. Changing labour market conditions in South Africa: a sectoral analysis of the period 1970-97. South African Journal of Economics, 70(5): 830-64.
12. GALVAO, J, 2002. Access to antiretroviral drugs in Brazil. Lancet, 360(7): 1862-5.
13. GEFFEN, N, NATTRASS, N & RAUBENHEIMER, C, 2003. The cost of HIV/Aids prevention and treatment interventions. Working Paper No. 29, Centre for Social Science Research. Cape Town: University of Cape Town. Available online at www.uct.ac.za/depts/cssr
14. HARCOURT, T, 1995. Australian trade unions: policy information for South African trade unions. Melbourne: Australian Council of Trade Unions.
15. HOFMEYR, J, 1994. An analysis of African wage movements in South Africa. Research Monograph No. 9, Economic Research Unit. Durban: University of Natal.
16. JOHNSON, L & DORRINGTON, R, 2002. The demographic and epidemiological impact of HIV/Aids treatment and prevention programmes: an evaluation based on the ASSA2000 model. Paper presented at the Demographic Association of Southern Africa Conference, Cape Town.
17. KAPLINSKY, R, 1995. Capital intensity in South African manufacturing and unemployment, 1972-90. World Development, 23(2): 179-92.
18. KARSHENAS, M, 2001. Agriculture and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 25(May): 315-42.
19. KAVANAGH, E, CONSIDINE, J, DOYLE, E, GALLAGHER, L, KAVANAGH, C & O'LEARY, E, 1997. The political economy of EMU in Ireland. In Jones, E, Frieden, J & Torres, F (Eds), EMU and the smaller countries: joining Europe's monetary club. New York: St Martins Press, 123-48.
20. LANE, P, 1998. Profits and wages in Ireland: 1987-1996. Journal of the Social and Statistical Society, 27(5): 223-51.
21. LE ROUX, P, 2002. Financing a universal income grant in South Africa. Social Dynamics, 28(2).
22. LEIBBRANDT, M, WOOLARD, I & BHORAT, H, 2000. Understanding contemporary household inequality in South Africa. Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 24(3): 31-51.
23. LIPTON, M, 1985. Capitalism and apartheid: South Africa 1910-1984. Aldershot: Wildwood House.
24. MAIL AND GUARDIAN, 21-27 February 2003.
25. MATISONN, H & SEEKINGS, J, 2002. Welfare in Wonderland? The politics of the basic income grant in South Africa, 1996-2002. Paper presented to the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)/Frederik Eberhardt Stigting (FES) conference on 'Labour markets and poverty in South Africa'. Johannesburg, 22-24 October.
26. MCCORD, A, 2002. Public works as a response to labour marker failure in South Africa. Working Paper No. 19, Centre for Social Science Research. Cape Town: University of Cape Town.
27. MCCORD, A, 2003. The economics of employment generation. Paper presented at a seminar at the Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 6 March.
28. MEINTJES, C, 1998. Impediments on the labour absorption capacity of the South African economy. Discussion Paper No. 2, March. Halfway House: Development Bank of Southern Africa.
29. MOLL, T, 1991. Did the apartheid economy fail? Journal of Southern African Studies, 17(2): 271-91.
30. MOLL, P, 1996. Compulsory centralisation of collective bargaining in South Africa. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 82(2): 326-9.
31. NATTRASS, N, 1996. Gambling on investment: competing economic strategies in South Africa. Transformation, 31(1): 25-42.
32. NATTRASS, N, 1999. Globalisation and social accords: a comparative analysis of Sweden, Australia and South Africa. Labour, Capital and Society, 32(2): 158-90.
33. NATTRASS, N, 2000a. The debate about unemployment in the 1990s. Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 24(3): 73-90.
34. NATTRASS, N, 2000b. Inequality, unemployment and wage-setting institutions in South Africa. Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 24(3): 129-42.
35. NATTRASS, N, 2001. High productivity now: a critical review of South Africa's growth strategy. Transformation, 45: 1-24.
36. NATTRASS, N, 2002. Should youth unemployment be targeted as part of a comprehensive welfare policy in South Africa. Social Dynamics, 28(2): 207-36.
37. NATTRASS, N, 2003. Aids, economic growth and income distribution in South Africa. South African Journal of Economics, Vol. 71, No. 3: 428-454.
38. NATTRASS, N, 2004. The moral economy of Aids in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
39. NATTRASS, N & GEFFEN, N, 2003. The economics of HAART in South Africa. Paper presented at the seminar on 'Scaling up the use of antiretrovirals in the public health sector: what are the challenges?'. School of Public Health and Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1 August.
40. NATTRASS, N & SEEKINGS, J, 1997. Citizenship and welfare in South Africa: deracialisation and inequality in a labour-surplus economy. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 31(3): 452-81.
41. O'DONNEL, R, 2001. The future of social partnership in Ireland. Discussion paper prepared for the National Competitiveness Council, May.
42. RHODES, M, 2001. The political economy of social pacts: 'competitive corporatism' and European welfare reform. In Pierson, P (Ed.), The new politics of the welfare state. New York: Oxford University Press.
43. ROSEN, S & SIMON, J, 2002. Shifting the burden of HIV/Aids. Centre for International Health. Boston: Boston University. Available online at sbrosenβu.edu
44. ROSEN, S, SIMON, J & VINCENT, J, 2000. Care and treatment to extend the working lives of HIV-positive employees: calculating the benefits to business. South African Journal of Science, 96(June): 300-5.
45. SAMSON, M, 2002. The social, economic and fiscal impact of a comprehensive social security reform for South Africa. Social Dynamics, 28(2): 69-121.
46. SEEKINGS, J, 2003a. Providing for the poor: welfare and redistribution in South Africa. Inaugural lecture. University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 23 April.
47. SEEKINGS, J, 2003b. Do South Africa's unemployed constitute an underclass? Working Paper No. 32, Centre for Social Science Research. Cape Town: University of Cape Town. Available online at www.uct.ac.za/depts/cssr
48. SEEKINGS, J & NATTRASS, N, 2004. From race to class: the changing nature of inequality in South Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press.
49. SIMBI, T & ALIBER, M, 2000. The agricultural employment crisis in South Africa. Paper presented at the TIPS Policy Forum, Muldersdrift, September.
50. SIMKINS, C, 2003. Facing South Africa's social security challenge. Unpublished paper. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand.
51. SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK (SARB), 2003. Unpublished data. Pretoria: SARB.
52. STEINBERG, J, JOHNSON, S, SCHIERHOUT, G & NDEGWA, D, 2002a. A survey of households impacted by HIV/Aids in South Africa: what are the priority responses? Johannesburg: Kaiser Family Foundation.
53. STEINBERG, J, JOHNSON, S, SCHIERHOUT, G & NDEGWA, D, 2002b. Hitting home - how households cope with the impact of the HIV/Aids epidemic: a survey of households affected by HIV/Aids in South Africa. Johannesburg: Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Systems Trust.
54. STILLWAGGON, E, 2002. HIV/Aids in Africa: fertile terrain. Journal of Development Studies, 38(6): 1-22.
55. Taylor Committee, 2002. Transforming the present: protecting the future. Report of the Committee of Inquiry into a Comprehensive System of Social Security for South Africa, RP/53/2002. Pretoria: Government Printer.
56. VAN DER BERG, S & BREDENKAMP, C, 2002. Devising social security interventions for maximum poverty impact. Social Dynamics, 28(2): 38-68.
57. WEEKS, J, 1999. Stuck in low GEAR? Macroeconomic policy in South Africa, 1996-98. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 23(4): 795-811.
58. WHARTON ECONOMETRIC FORECASTING ASSOCIATES (WEFA), undated. World development indicators data set. Available online at www.dri-wefa.com