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Developmental social policies for the poor in South Africa: Exploring options to enhance impacts?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010)
Options to enhance the developmental impact of South Africa’s comprehensive suite of social protection policies have attracted considerable research and policy interest. The country’s society safety nets appear to be ...
The impact of poverty and inequality on the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The purpose of this themed working paper is to explore lone mothers’ accounts of what dignity
means in the context of their lives and how the experience of poverty and inequality impacts on
their sense of dignity. This ...
Poverty erodes dignity: perspectives of low income female caregivers in South Africa
(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 ...
The impact of poverty and inequality on the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
In Part 1 of this themed working paper, an account is provided of low income lone mothers’
portrayals of dignity in relation to their lives. A key objective of the project was to explore what
‘dignity’ means to low income ...
Report on an international symposium: The politics of poverty research and pro-poor policy making: Learning from the practice of policy dialogue
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2012)
Research Report to Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy Development in South Africa (PSPPD)
(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 ...
Overcoming inequality and structural poverty in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010)
Data indicates that between 1994 and 2008 poverty in South Africa declined marginally, but that inequality continues to increase, and the full impact of the rise in unemployment following the global financial crisis has ...
Poverty and inequality trends in South Africa using different survey data
(Stellenbosch University, 2010)
There is an abundance of literature adopting the monetary approach (i.e., using per capita income or expenditure variables) to derive poverty and inequality trends for South Africa since the transition. The most commonly ...
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 ...