South Africa and Poverty
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- The BLDS poverty collection
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- Search for the latest poverty-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- ICT strategies in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa - the Tanzanian case
- H. Toivanen 2011
- This report offers a short theoretical and conceptual discussion of ICT strategies in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa, and investigates in more detail the Tanzanian case. The paper discusses how ICT’s possible role can and sho...
- The challenges to disaster risk reduction as expressed by stakeholders in Imizamo Yethu, South Africa
- A. Roth (ed); P. Becker (ed) / African Centre for Disaster Studies, 2011
- South Africa is a dynamic, developing country in a challenging transition as it struggles to protect life and health, property, infrastructure and the environment from disasters. It is generally accepted that prevention is better than...
- The future of African rural dwellers: labour force participation outside of rural agriculture
- D. Bryceson (ed) / Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2000
- The last two decades of the 20th century have been a period of change for sub-Saharan African economies. Structural Adjustment Programmes have triggered a huge, unplanned income diversification response in African rural areas making r...
- Government supported-programmes in South Africa to protect the environment and alleviate poverty
- A. Mampye; L. Hart; N. Madadzhe / GRID Arendal, 2011
- This report, ‘Working for the Environment’, is a publication launched by the Department of Environmental Affairs in South Africa. The report aims to inform and educate the general public in South Africa on work currently b...
- 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...
- Mobilising unemployed and economically inactive South Africans
- C. Meth / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2010
- In terms of labour, it is well-known that some people are economically inactive but they are receiving welfare benefits, which provokes policies corresponded to activate the unemployed people. this study glances at the history of the ...
- Poverty estimates in South Africa
- C. Meth / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2010
- In an attempt to fill in some of the gaps in knowledge about poverty and inequality trends in South Africa, Professor V.D. Berg and his colleagues have published a stream of papers on the topic. This working paper is an extended searc...
- 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...
- Appreciating the differences between chronic and transient poverty is important for policy
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- The past few years have seen remarkable consensus on and commitment to poverty reduction from governments around the world. This has resulted in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which seek to reduce global absolute poverty by 5...
- 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. ...
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