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
- Longitudinal survey of chronic household poverty in South Africa
- M. Aliber / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2001
- Aims to summarise the current state of knowledge about chronic poverty in South Africa describe the range of existing governmental and civil society initiatives which address chronic poverty identify c...
- Measuring the impact of participation on the effectiveness of public works interventions in South Africa
- J. Hoddinott; M. Adato; T. Besley; L. Haddad / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
- This paper examines the relationship between community participation and the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty. It developes some simple analytics that are used to structure a review of the extant literature ...
- Coping with prime age adult AIDS-related illness and death
- C. Desmond; K. Michael; J. Gow / Health Economics & HIV/AIDS Research Division, University of Natal, 2000
- This paper examines the impact on family and community of the three ‘phases’ in the cycle of illnessand death from AIDS: 1. the illness; 2. the period following immediately after death; and 3. the longer-term aftermath. It e...
- Does post-Apartheid South Africa involve only one kind of freedom?
- M.R. Carter; J. May / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
- This article explores the legacy of apartheid, which had much to do with the extraordinary levels of inequality and human insecurity. It investigates this subject through the first ever nationally representative living standards surve...
- 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 ...
- Can poverty eradication amongst domestic and farm workers take place through a minimum wage policy?
- H. Bhorat / Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2000
- The South African Department of Labour's recent call for public submissions and public comment on the issue of minimum wages and conditions of employment for domestic and farm workers has bought these issues to the fore. An analysis o...
- Get Ahead Foundation [NGO credit in South Africa]
- C. Churchill / Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
- Briefly outlines some of GAF’s numerous activities during the past decade. These diverse projects reflect a donor-driven approach to development that was common among South African NGOs during apartheid. The end of apartheid in 1...
- Health and education subsidies in Africa favour the better off
- F. Castro-Leal; J. Dayton; L. Demery; K. Mehra / World Bank Research Observer, 1999
- This paper, published by the World Bank Research Observer (WBRO), examines the effectiveness of public social spending on education and health care in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, and Tanza...
- Safety net arrangements for elderly Africans
- S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001
- Non-contributory state pensions were introduced in South Africa in 1928. Eligibility was extended to White Namibians in the 1940s but to African Namibians only in 1973. Initially motivated by a complex combination of welfarist ...
- Country Gender Profile: South Africa
- S. Baden; S. Hassim; S. Meintjes / Women'sNet [South Africa], 1999
- Explores the dynamics of gender relations and the challenge of transforming gender inequalities in the broader economic and political context of South Africa’s transition to democracy and re-integration into the global economy. T...
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