South Africa and Poverty
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- How is Brazil’s Bolsa-Familia programme relevant for the Southern African Development Community
- R. Maharaj; K. Town / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2007
- Given the recent interest in South Africa for developing a basic income grant, it is useful to study successful examples of social grant implementation to ascertain the challenges and opportunities associated with such a system. This ...
- Emerging economies are providing workable development strategies and creating new multilateral south-south institutions
- J. Scott; M. vom Hau; D. Hulme / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010
- Much attention has been focused on the BICs (Brazil, India and China) and how they are changing global politics and economics. However, there is also a further tier of emerging middle powers ‘beyond the BICs’ that are play...
- Inequality in South Africa lower than previously thought
- A. Bosch; J. Rossouw; T. Claassens; B. du Plessis / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2010
- The distribution of income and wealth in South Africa is core to political debate in the country. At the heart of the debate is the Gini coefficient, which is the international standard for measuring the distribution of income and wea...
- Poverty measures that can reflect more than the bare statistics
- J. May / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2010
- This paper reviews poverty measurement and its applications in South Africa, where poverty measurement continues to be the subject of a politicised debate. The author demonstrates that vulnerability is an important cause of...
- Studies on health and well-being among people aged 50 years and over in eight countries in Africa and Asia
- Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010
- Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health...
- Stabilising post-apartheid South African society
- J. Handmaker (ed); R. Berkhout (ed) / University of Pretoria, 2010
- This book aims at providing an account of the research findings that emerged from Chalsty Centre Conference, which was organised as a meeting of civil activists in 2009 in South Africa (SA). The conference sought to reflect on civic m...
- South African civil society taking steps to fight xenophobia
- P. Bond; M. Galvin; M. Jara; T. Ngwane / Atlantic Philanthropies, 2010
- This study examines whether there is a need to reconceptualise civil society organisations (CSOs) in South Africa, given the fragmented and uneven responses of CSOs to the May 2008 violence. The document states that with the end of ap...
- The importance of mixed-nighboured housing projects in South Africa
- S. Muyeba; J. Seekings / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2010
- This paper examines South African communities who live in racially-integrated residential neighbourhoods. The paper illustrates that members of these communities consist of low-income coloured and African citizens, living in sta...
- South African economy in the 20th Century: constrained growth and persistent poverty
- N. Nattrass; J. Seekings / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2010
- This paper analyses South African economic history in the Twentieth Century, pointing to crucial changes in the economy and the roles therein played by the state, and the consequences of these for poverty. The author notices th...
- Reducing poverty and inequality in South Africa
- A. Bernstein (ed) / Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa, 2010
- This issue of the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) Round Table makes reference to discussions held in April 2010 about politics and economics of inequality in South Africa. The report demonstrates that...
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