South Africa and Livelihoods
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- A risky business: poverty and livelihoods in South Africa
- Colin Murray; Elizabeth Francis; Rachel Slater / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Most of the poorest people in South Africa live in former homelands and are without jobs, decent housing or land. What strategies do people use to make a living? What kind of institutions shape these strategies? Focusing on two former...
- Supporting the poor: sustainable safety nets for the new millennium
- Stephen Devereux / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Policymakers have moved away from offering universal benefits to developing ways of protecting the poor against income fluctuations and livelihood shocks. What have we learned about the design, targeting and impact of social protectio...
- How has private sector involvement in natural resource management affected communities in Southern Africa?
- A. Spenceley / Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
- Looks at how changing institutional arrangements and policies affect poor people's livelihoods and access to natural resources. It addresses tourism in South Africa, and the growing role of the private sector in natural resourc...
- Regulating the informal economy
- M. Alter Chen; F. Lund; R. Jhabvala / International Labour Organization, 2002
- This paper argues that the informal economy is here to stay and requires appropriate regulations, laws and policies to correct biases in the existing regulatory, legal, and policy environment that favour formal enterprises and workers...
- Tackling HIV/AIDS and child labour in sub-Saharan Africa
- B. Rau / International Labour Organization, 2002
- This review of national HIV/AIDS and child labour policies and programmes, NGO projects, and community-based initiatives lluminates the harsh realities of the link between child labour and HIV/AIDS. The report identifies the broad ran...
- Can social security redress endemic poverty in South Africa?
- S. van der Berg; C. Bredenkamp / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2002
- Is social security, designed to provide protection against various contingencies, well suited to the elimination or redress of large-scale, endemic poverty? This article attempts to contribute to the debate surrounding social security...
- How much can a community owned lodge contribute to the livelihoods of people living on a Protected Area border?
- H. Mzenda / Eldis Document Store, 2002
- This case study, of a community owned wildlife tourism lodge in the north West Province of South Africa, explores the benefits accruing to the communities on the border of the reserve from the venture. Taking a livelihoods anal...
- Does the basic income grant address the need for social security reform in South Africa?
- M. Samson; O. Babson; C. Haarmann; G. Kathi; K. MacQueneand; I. van Niekerk; D. Haarmann / Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa, 2002
- This paper reviews several research papers that address social security reform in South Africa, with an emphasis on the proposal for the basic income grant. It argues that there are three mechanisms through which the basic income gran...
- Changing economic and social patterns in African rural settlements
- D. Bryceson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
- This paper synthesises the findings and main policy implications of new empirical studies on changing rural livelihoods from the De-Agrarianisation and Rural Employment (DARE) research programme at the African Studies Centre, Universi...
- Why do grandmothers prefer girls? The effects of pensions on child nutrition
- E. Duflo / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2000
- This paper studies whether the impact of a cash transfer on child nutritional status is affected by the gender of its recipient. In the early 1990's, the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded ...
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