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During the course of
2006 I
was
involved with the CAGE (Conflict and Governance Facility) funded study
called "Measuring and Understanding Poverty and Inequality Shifts in
Post-Apartheid South Africa: An Asset Index Approach". The study aims to
measure access to services and ownership of assets as an indicator of
poverty and inequality. using econometric techniques we will construct
an appropriately weighted asset
poverty index and asset poverty line.
I have been involved in the compilation of a labour market report for
the Department of Trade and Industry and this project also entails the
production of three more labour market reports up to the end of the
year.
2005
I attended a workshop on 20-23 June 2005 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
entitled "Regional Training Workshop in Africa on Pro-Poor Macroeconomic
Policies"
The workshop was held to complement the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Africa (RBA) regional programme in
Africa on Economic Policies and Poverty Reduction. There is a need to do
some in-depth training on pro-poor macroeconomics for national
counterparts, such as government officials and CSO representatives, as
well as for UNDP staff. The objective of this workshop was to test
learning modules that are currently being developed and can subsequently
be used by the RBA to build capacity on pro-poor macroeconomics. The
training modules developed for this workshop can be used for subsequent
training sessions for the regional programme or for other regional
programmes or national-level projects. Topics included Pro-poor Economic
Growth, Pro-poor Fiscal and Monetary Policies, and Employment and
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