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The commercial agricultural sector in South Africa has historically been dominated by large-scale operations run by white owners and managers. In redressing this imbalance, black farmers classified as ‘emerging’ are being encouraged to engage in high-input agricultural production in order to obtain ‘commercial’ status. Since existing practices in commercial agriculture rely heavily on pesticides, emerging farmers aspiring to become commercial are pressured to adopt and/or increase the use of pesticides. However, problems of access to land, finances, resources, skills and markets overshadow the health and safety of these farmers and their labour force that may be affected by exposure to pesticides. This paper presents the results of a policy study based on primary interview data with key stakeholders and secondary documentary review data, to illustrate how pesticides are used in an occupational health and safety vacuum because the focus of key institutions is rather on economic productivity. 相似文献
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We study fiscal consolidations in the Central and Eastern European countries and what determines the probability of their
success. We define consolidation events as substantive improvements in fiscal balances adjusting for the impact of cyclical
effects. We use logit models for the period 1991–2003 to assess the determinants of the success of a fiscal adjustment. The
results seem to suggest that for these countries expenditure based consolidations have tended to be more successful. By contrast,
revenue-based consolidations have a tendency to be less successful.
JEL no. C25, E62, H62 相似文献
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Regional monetary integration, financial liberalisation andthe adoption of indirect policy instruments continue to changethe conditions for monetary policy in the West African Economicand Monetary Union (WAEMU). While the identification of a stablemoney demand relationship has become a crucial element for monetarypolicy, differences in economic behaviour between Côted'Ivoire and the remaining countries may induce instabilityat the aggregate level. This paper analyses the demand for moneyfor the entire WAEMU, the six smaller member countries, andCôte d'Ivoire. A stable aggregate money demand functionis identified and interpreted in light of the results for thesub-regional estimations. 相似文献
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This paper investigates the average impact of government debt on per-capita GDP growth in twelve euro area countries over a period of about 40 years starting in 1970. It finds a non-linear impact of debt on growth with a turning point – beyond which the government debt-to-GDP ratio has a negative impact on long-term growth – at about 90–100% of GDP. Confidence intervals for the debt turning point suggest that the negative growth effect of high debt may start already from levels of around 70 to 80% of GDP. The channels through which government debt is found to have a non-linear impact on the economic growth rate are private saving, public investment and total factor productivity. 相似文献
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We study the impact of expenditure rules on the propensity for governments to deviate from their expenditure plans in response to surprising cyclical developments. Theoretical considerations suggest that due to political fragmentation in the budgetary process expenditure policy might be prone to a procyclical bias. However, this tendency may be mitigated by strictly enforced expenditure rules. These hypotheses are tested against data from a panel of EU Member States. Our key findings are that (1) deviations between actual and planned government expenditure tend to be positively related to output gap surprises, and (2) expenditure rules reduce this procyclical bias. These results are particularly pronounced when the analysis is confined to spending items with a high degree of budgetary flexibility. 相似文献
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Rother J 《Medical economics》1998,75(4):177-80, 187-8, 191
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Friederike Spiecker Clemens Fuest Philipp Rother Ludger Schuknecht Jürgen Stark Carl Christian von Weizsäcker Heiner Flassbeck 《Wirtschaftsdienst》2010,90(11):711-727
Die ?ffentlichen Haushalte sind durch die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise stark in Anspruch genommen. Au?erdem wurde, noch bevor
der Ausgang der Krise absehbar war, in Deutschland die Schuldenbremse beschlossen. Bei den Autoren besteht Einigkeit darüber,
dass die Nachkrisenzeit einer sensiblen Fiskalpolitik bedarf. über deren Ausgestaltung gehen die Auffassungen jedoch auseinander. 相似文献
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Development for children's environmental health in South Africa: Past gains and future opportunities
Angela Mathee Brendon Barnes Shan Naidoo Andre Swart Hanna-Andrea Rother 《Development Southern Africa》2018,35(2):283-293
In poorly resourced countries children may face multiple health risks associated with environmental hazards and under-development. It is estimated that exposure to harmful environmental factors (e.g. air pollution, poor water quality and harmful chemicals) accounts for 33% of the global burden of disease, with the highest burden being borne by children. While accelerated housing and settlement development over the past two decades has benefitted hundreds of thousands of young children in South Africa, large numbers continue to face major environmental threats to their health, some of which have hitherto been neglected. Such children are likely to be particularly vulnerable to the unfolding ramifications of climate change. In this light greater urgency and momentum is needed to improve living conditions and other socio-environmental determinants of children's health in South Africa and other under-resourced countries. Children should be a central focus for policy and development as our global society strives to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. 相似文献
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