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The Causes of Unemployment in Post‐apartheid Johannesburg and the Livelihood Strategies of the Poor

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  • Jo Beall
  • Owen Crankshaw
  • Susan Parnell

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Central to the increase in urban poverty in the post‐apartheid period is the rise in unemployment. This provides the point of departure for this paper. The first section shows how Johannesburg and its environs, although constituting the industrial and commercial heartland of South Africa, is a city that has not reached its potential economic development. Having outlined the causes and dimensions of this sluggish economic position, next is considered how the poor survive in Johannesburg through both economic and non‐economic strategies. With this in mind it is argued that addressing the current situation of growing poverty and inequality (as well as redressing the legacy of past inequities) requires broad municipal response to urban unemployment. Instead of the current tendency to view poverty simply as the product of income and consumption deprivation, a more widely defined response to urban poverty reduction, based on a livelihoods framework, is proposed.

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  • Jo Beall & Owen Crankshaw & Susan Parnell, 2000. "The Causes of Unemployment in Post‐apartheid Johannesburg and the Livelihood Strategies of the Poor," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 91(4), pages 379-396, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:91:y:2000:i:4:p:379-396
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9663.00125
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    1. Nnaeme, Chibuikem C. & Patel, Leila & Plagerson, Sophie, 2020. "How cash transfers enable agency through livelihoods in South Africa," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    2. Bruce MASAMA & Juan-Pierré BRUWER, 2018. "Revisiting the Economic Factors which Influence Fast Food South African Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise Sustainability," Expert Journal of Business and Management, Sprint Investify, vol. 6(1), pages 19-28.

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