Africa Reading List

Africa Reading List

Graham, C. (1996) “Gender Issues In Poverty Alleviation: Recent Experiences with Demand-based Programs in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe,” ILO Issues in Development Paper 11, 1996.

ILO (2001) Poverty and Employment in Africa: Issues and Evidence, Presented as pre-

Sessional contribution to the ECOSOC High Level Segment on "The Role of the UN in Support of the Efforts of African Countries to Achieve Sustainable Effort", Geneva, 16-18 July, Geneva: Recovery and Reconstruction Department, ILO.

Kakwani, N., F. Soares and H. Son (2005) “Conditional Cash Transfers In African

Countries”, InternationalPovertyCenter, UNDP Working Paper No. 9.

Nkurunziza, J. “Generating Rural Employment In Africa To Fight Poverty,” Paper

presented at ECOSOC’s High-Level Segment, New York, May 9, 2006.

von Braun, J., Teklu, T. and Webb, P. (1991) 'Labor-Intensive Public Works for Food

Security: Experience in Africa', Working Papers on Food Subsidies, No.6, WashingtonD.C.: IFPRI.

Botswana

Tesfaye Teklu (1995) 'Labor-Intensive Public Works: The Experience of Botswana and

Tanzania', Chapter 6 in J. von Braun (ed.), Employment for Poverty Reduction and Food Security, WashingtonD.C.: IFPRI.

Ethiopia

Gelan, A. (2006) “Cash Or Food Aid? A General Equilibrium Analysis for Ethiopia”,

Development Policy Review, 24(5): 601-624.

Quisumbing, A. and Y. Yohannes. “How Fair Is Workfare? Gender, Public Works, and

Employment in Rural Ethiopia,” International Food Policy Research Institute Working Paper No. S3492, 2004.

Ghana

Baah-Boateng, William “Employment Policies For Sustainable Development: The

Experience of Ghana,” Paper Presented at Workshop on Employment Framework for Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, Organized by Government of Ghana, (Ghana: ILO, UNDP, May 7, 2004).

Epstein, G. and J. Heintz, “Monetary Policy And Financial Sector Reform For

Employment Creation And Poverty Reduction In Ghana,” InternationalPovertyCenter, UNDP Country Study 2, June 2006 (New York, UNDP, 2006)..

Heintz, J. (2004) “Elements Of An Employment Framework For Poverty Reduction In

Ghana”, Report of a Joint ILO/UNDP Mission.

Heintz, J. (2005) “Employment, Poverty And Gender In Ghana”, Political Economy

Research Working Paper No. 92.

Malawi

Devereux, S. (1999) '''Making Less Last Longer": Informal safety nets in Malawi', IDS Discussion Paper, No.373. Brighton: Institute of Development Studies.

Lema, C. (2005) 'Impacting poverty through integrated local level rural accessibility

planning in Malawi', ASIST Bulletin, No. 19.

Lwanda, A.C. and Esterhuizen, A. (2005) 'A multi-tier approach towards poverty reduction', ASIST Bulletin, No. 19.

Scott-Wilson (1999) Safety nets mechanism for Malawi: Public works programme study, Harare: Scott-Wilson Central Africa.

Morocco

World Bank (2005) Morocco Rural Water Supply And Sanitation Project.

Niger

Brown, L. Yohannes, Y., and Webb, P. (1994) ‘Rural Labor-Intensive Public Works:

Impacts of Participation on Preschooler Nutrition: Evidence from Niger’, American Agricultural Economics Association 76, 1213-1218. December.

South Africa

Adato, M., Haddad, L., Horner, D., Ravjee, N. and Haywood, R. () 999) From Works to Public Works: The Performance of Labour-Intensive Public Works in Western Cape Province, South Africa, Washington D.C.: IFPRI and Cape Town: SALDRU.

Adato, Michelle and Haddad, Lawrence, “Targeting Poverty Through Community-Based

Public Works Programs: A Cross-Disciplinary Assessment of Recent Experience In South Africa,” FCND Discussion Paper No. 121 (Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001).

EPWP (2004a) Infrastructure Sector Plan for the Expanded Public Works Programme, Pretoria: Department of Public Works.

EPWP (2004b) Environment and Culture Sector Plan for the Expanded Public Works Programme, Pretoria: Department of Public Works.

EPWP (2004c) Social Sector Plan for the Expanded Public Works Programme, Pretoria: Department of Public Works.

EPWP (2005) Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP): Fourth Quarterly Report (I

April 2004 - 31 March 2005), Pretoria: Department of Public Works.

Haddad, L. and M. Adato (2001) “How Efficiently Do Public Works Programs Transfer

Benefits To The Poor? Evidence from South Africa”, FCND Discussion Paper No. 108, International Food Policy Research Institute, April 2001.

ILO (2005) 'EIIP: South Africa',

McCord, A. (2004) 'Tough nut to crack', Mail and Guardian, 7 May 2004.

ODI (2004) 'Public works as a solution to unemployment in South Africa? Two different models of public works programme compared', ESAU Briefing Paper, No.2.

Pollin, R., G. Epstein, J. Heintz, and L. Ndikumana. “An Employment-Targeted

Economic Program for South-Africa,” InternationalPovertyCenter, UNDP Country Study No. 1, June 2006.

Tanzania

Melgaard,L. (2000) 'Rehabilitation and maintenance of district and feeder roads in Mwanza region, Tanzania, ASIST Bulletin, No 10.

Zambia

Schubert, B (2004) “The Pilot Social Cash Transfer Scheme: Kalomo District, Zambia”,

Zambia Social Safety Net Project, December 2004.

Zimbabwe

Lema, C. (2003) 'A Case Study of the impact of selected access interventions in two rural districts in Zimbabwe', ASIST Bulletin, No.16.