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Community response: decline of the Chambo in Lake Malawi's Southeast arm
(Springer, 2011)
Small-scale fisheries are a major source of food and employment around the world. Yet, many small-scale fishers work in conditions that are neither safe nor secure. Millions of them are poor, and often they are socially ...
Nasruddin's key: poverty measurement and the government of marginal populations
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape., 2011)
This paper considers the role of ‘measurement’ and other forms of poverty knowledge
in a context where the nature and direction of global economic growth is creating
‘surplus populations’ suffering various forms of ...
Exploring the eligibility criteria of the child support grant and its impact on poverty
(Springer Verlag, 2017)
One of the most important policy objectives in the post-apartheid South African economy is to reduce poverty. Although economic growth and job creation are the preferred sources of alleviating poverty and inequality, social ...
Aspirations and human development interventions
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
What role can aspirations play in small-scale human development interventions? In this paper, we contribute to answering that question with both conceptual and empirical work. Aspirations can play at least two roles in ...
Development policy planning in Ghana: The case of health care provision
(European Scientific Institute, 2014)
This paper examines the historical development of health policy in
Ghana within the framework of financial, geographical accessibility and the
availability of health care. Historically, health policy has been
urban ...
The impact of educational attainment on household poverty in South Africa: A case study of Limpopo province
(Routledge, 2019)
Poverty is a phenomenon that is multidimensional in nature and its meaning varies from one individual to another (Alkire and Foster 2011; Batana 2013; Bossert, Chakravarty, and D'Ambrosio 2013; Jansen et al. 2015). It can ...
The trouble with poverty: reflections on South Africa's post-apartheid anti-poverty consensus
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This paper considers the state of poverty discourse in South Africa since 1994: the ideological frameworks,
narratives and assumptions that have shaped the construction of poverty as an object of academic
knowledge, ...
Changing people, changing lives through public participation and social transformation: A south African case study of a rural development programme
(Routledge, 2020)
During 2009, in what seemed to be a return to RDP-style thinking, the Comprehensive Rural
Development Programme (CRDP) was adopted nationally to tackle not only
underdevelopment, poverty, unemployment, and other social ...
Factors influencing the comparability of poverty estimates across household surveys
(Taylor & Francis group, 2016)
The South African existing literature on poverty mainly adopted the
money-metric approach to examine poverty levels and trends since
the advent of democracy. In general, poverty increased until the end
of the 1990s, ...
Employed yet poor: Low-wage employment and workingpoverty in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2020)
Working poverty exists worldwide and has shown an increase inprevalence over the past few decades. Over the years, there hasbeen an increase in the number and severity of low-wageemployment, which in turn contributes ...