South Africa and Livelihoods
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- Inequality watch
- B. Thoresen / Norwegian People's Aid, 2012
- This report is a contribution to the development policy debate. It shows that it is a too narrow approach to limit the targets of development policy to growth or to lifting a population above an artificial poverty line. A clear priori...
- Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
- 2012
- Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’...
- The emerging policy for green economy and social development in Limpopo, South Africa
- A. Musyoki / United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012
- This paper evaluates the emerging green economy in South Africa, using ideas from the concept of sustainable rural livelihoods, which are intimately connected to ecological services many developing countries. It finds that African com...
- Bargaining with grandma: the impact of the South African pension on household decision making
- K Ambler / Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2011
- The expansion of the South African old age pension is interesting to economists firstly because extent to which this money effectively increases the well-being of those who receive it is an important question for a policymaking, but a...
- Enhancing the livelihoods of the rural poor through ICT: A knowledge map
- L. Fourie 2008
- This report contains the main findings of research performed on the impact of ICTs in enhancing the livelihoods of the rural poor in South Africa. After a brief introduction to the research team, the research questions, and methodolog...
- Have households with older people in South Africa and Brazil managed to reduce their poverty gaps?
- A. Barrientos; J. Mase / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011
- The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households in developing countries has direct implications for policy. In general, South Africa and Brazil lack official poverty lines. The main obje...
- The rise of pensions as a development issue
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The 1990s could well qualify as the decade of global pension reform. A number of countries in Latin America and some transition economies radically transformed their pension provision and moved swiftly towards privately provided indiv...
- Taking a look at the steps needed to achieve the water MDG and the World Summit for Sustainable Development sanitation goal
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate...
- A broad approach to reducing child poverty
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
- About 600 million children worldwide are growing up in absolute poverty. Over ten million children under five years of age die every year. Nearly one billion children will be growing up with impaired mental development by 2020. ...
- How pro-poor tourism has developed and some myths and misconceptions that have arisen around this term
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Pro-poor tourism should increase the benefits of the tourism industry for poor people. It is a term increasingly used by several development agencies, but what does it mean in practice? This issue of id21 insights, shows t...
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