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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Cash transfers in South Africa

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  Empowering women to achieve food security

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001

  This briefing outlines what safety nets are and how they work. Examples of safety nets in Mexico, South Africa and India are also summarised. It is argued that safety nets can strengthen marginalised people’s access to economic and social assets. Social differences can occur along gender, generational, and ethnic characteristics.
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  Large cash transfers to the elderly in South Africa

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1996

  This paper critically examines the social pension system for the elderly in South Africa. The paper explores the impact of this cash transfer on allocation for food, schooling, transfers and savings.The paper begins by giving an overview of the social pension scheme in South Africa and how it operates.
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  Child support grants increase school enrolment in South Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Cash benefits for children are reducing the impact of poverty on school enrolment in South Africa. In KwaZulu-Natal, child support grants are helping children, particularly from the poorest families, to be educated. Families receiving such grants are more likely to send their children to school at earlier ages than other equally poor households. 
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  The Department of Social Development (DoSD) as a national structure to addressHIV/AIDS

  Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005

  This brief note outlines how the South African Department for Social Development (DoSD) plan to address HIV and AIDS.
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  The impact of conditional cash transfers on human development outcomes: a review of evidence from PROGRESA in Mexico and some implications for policy debates in South and Southern Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This paper reflects on assessments of Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer scheme (called PROGRESA) and draws comparisons with South Africa's Child Support Grant (CSG).
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  Social security policy reform in post-apartheid South Africa: a focus on the basic income grant

  Centre for Civil Society, South Africa, 2004

  In 2000 a South African government committee recommended the introduction of a basic income grant (BIG), consisting of a grant of R100 per month for every South African citizen, regardless of age or income level.
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  Child poverty and cash transfers

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper addresses the effectiveness of cash transfers in addressing childhood poverty in developing and transition economies.
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  Non-contributory pensions – costly luxury or weapon against poverty?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Although the incidence of old age poverty in developing countries is high and set to increase further there is considerable resistance to establishing non-contributory pension programmes. It is often argued that they are unaffordable, that households can provide adequate support to older people and that there are many more pressing development challenges.
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  Non-contributory pensions and poverty prevention: a comparative study of Brazil and South Africa

  HelpAge International, 2003

  Pensions play a key role in old age support systems, but research and debate on pension policy has so far focused on contributory pension programmes.

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