Browsing by Author "Neves, David"
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Cash transfers for sustainable rural livelihoods? Examining the long-term productive effects of the Child Support Grant in South Africa
Neves, David; Hajdu, Flora; Granlund, Stefan (Elsevier, 2020)Cash transfers have received increased scholarly and policy attention, as a means of reducing poverty in the global South. While cash transfers are primarily intended to prevent impoverishment and deprivation, several ... -
Cash transfers for sustainable rural livelihoods? Examining the long-term productive effects of the Child Support Grant in South Africa
Neves, David; Granlund, Stefan (Elsivier, 2020)Cash transfers have received increased scholarly and policy attention, as a means of reducing poverty in the global South. While cash transfers are primarily intended to prevent impoverishment and deprivation, several ... -
Changing livelihoods in rural Eastern Cape, South Africa (2002–2016): Diminishing employment and expanding social protection
Hajdu, Flora; Neves, David; Granlund, Stefan (Taylor & Francis, 2020)This is evident in South Africa’s former ‘homelands’, the site where this study examined changes in rural livelihoods over a 14-year period. Detailed survey data (collected in 2002 and 2016) from two villages in the Pondoland ... -
Defining Lone Motherhood in South Africa
Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Barnes, Helen; Neves, David (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)The purpose of this document is to define the group of people whom we are considering as part of the project ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa: The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity’. Setting to one ... -
Economic informality in South Africa: practice & policy
Neves, David (2015)SA context: • High poverty & unemployment, yet small SMME sector. • Informal sector: African, low earning, female & retail dominated. • Inhibited by: – Spatial, labour market & ‘human capital’ legacies -
Examining livelihoods and reconsidering rural development in the former homelands of South Africa
Neves, David (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017)Persistent poverty and under-development in South Africa’s former homeland communal areas have been little changed by post-apartheid ‘rural development’ policy. Rural development policy has often been characterised by ... -
In search of South Africa’s second economy: Chronic poverty, vulnerability and adverse incorporation in Mt. Frere and Khayelitsha
du Toit, Andries; Neves, David (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2007)Since 2003, South African policy discourse about persistent poverty has been dominated by the notion that poor people stay poor because they are trapped in a ‘second economy’, disconnected from the mainstream ‘first world ... -
In search of South Africa’s ‘second economy’: Chronic poverty, economic marginalisation and adverse incorporation in Mt Frere and Khayelitsha
du Toit, Andries; Neves, David (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007-11)Since 2003, South African policy discourse about persistent poverty has been dominated by the notion that poor people stay poor because they are trapped in a ‘second economy’, disconnected from the mainstream ‘First- World ... -
Informal social protection in post-apartheid migrant networks: Vulnerability, social networks and reciprocal exchange in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa
du Toit, Andries; Neves, David (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009-01)This paper considers the dynamics of informal social protection in the context of chronic poverty and vulnerability in post-apartheid migrant networks. It argues that in poor and marginalised households in South Africa, ... -
Livelihoods & social differentiation in ‘post-agrarian’ South Africa
Neves, David (2017)• Legacy: Settler colonialism & migrant labour • Industrialization & proletarianisation • Dichotomous agrarian landscape • Rural poverty, esp. former homelands • Longstanding deagrarianisation -
Lone Mothers in South Africa - The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity.
Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)The purpose of this document is to define the group of people whom we are considering as part of the project ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa: The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity’. Setting to ... -
Lone Mothers in South Africa - The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity.
Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)The purpose of this document is to define the group of people whom we are considering as part of the project ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa: The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity’. Setting to ... -
Mapping Obesogenic food environments in South Africa and Ghana: Correlations and contradictions
Krol, Florian; Swart, Elizabeth Catherina; Annan, Reginald Adjetey; Thow, Anne Marie; Neves, David; Apprey, Charles; Aduku, Linda Nana Esi; Agyapong, Nana Ama Frimpomaa; Moubarac, Jean-Claude; du Toit, Andries; Aidoo, Robert; Sanders, David (MPDI, 2019)In sub-Saharan Africa, urbanisation and food systems change contribute to rapid dietary transitions promoting obesity. It is unclear to what extent these changes are mediated by neighbourhood food environments or other ... -
Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy
Neves, David; du Toit, Andries (Cambridge University Press, 2012)This article examines the interplay of agency, culture and context in order to consider the social embeddedness of money and trade at the margins of South Africa’s economy. Focusing on small-scale, survivalist informal ... -
Poverty erodes dignity: perspectives of low income female caregivers in South Africa
Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)The Universal Declaration of Human Rights introduces the recognition of the inherent dignity of all people as a foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. Dignity plays a prominent role in South Africa’s ... -
Poverty erodes dignity: perspectives of low income female caregivers in South Africa
Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)Dignity is a foundational value in South Africa’s Constitution and is also experienced as a psycho-social phenomenon. Dimensions of dignity were explored with almost two hundred low income female caregivers and the impact ... -
Reconsidering rural development: Using livelihood analysis to examine rural development in the former homelands of South Africa
Neves, David (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017)‘Rural development’ as concept and focus of public policy is comparatively new, having emerged in the post-war period. Much of the impetus for ‘rural development’ arose in the context of newly decolonised, low-income ... -
Research Report to Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy Development in South Africa (PSPPD)
Neves, David; Aliber, Michael; Mogaladi, Jan; du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This report documents research conducted on small-scale informal self-employment at the margins of the South African economy. Despite high levels of poverty and unemployment South Africa has, by developing country ... -
The role of social security in respecting and protecting the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa: Final report
Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)This is the final report of a project entitled ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa: The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity’. The project was inspired by research undertaken for the South African ... -
The role of social security in respecting and protecting the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa: Summary of findings and recommendations
Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)This study explored lone mothers’ experiences of social security in South Africa in terms of whether it protects and respects their dignity. Interviews were undertaken with almost two hundred low income lone mothers ...