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    Social transfers: a critical strategy to meet the MDGs

    HelpAge International, 2010
    Non-contributory pensions enable poor older people to provide for their future and the future of their families. Alongside other social transfer schemes, pensions are now being seen to help reduce old age and intergenerational poverty, and have improved income security, access to education, health status and gender equality across other age groups.
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    Mobilising social justice in South Africa: perspectives from researchers and practitioners

    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 mobilisation for social justice, concentrating on how to understand the dynamics of civil society formation and the role that should be played by local actors.
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    Problematising civil society: on what terrain does xenophobia flourish?

    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 apartheid, donors were keen to support the new legitimate government and looked to the new government to direct development.
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    Inter-racial attitudes and interactions in racially-mixed low-income neighbourhoods in Cape Town, South Africa

    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  state-subsidised housing. The houses were allocated through public housing projects so as to create a mixed neighbourhood.
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    The economy and poverty in the Twentieth Century in South Africa

    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.
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    Poverty and inequality: facts, trends, and hard choices

    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. 
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    Economic conditions, living conditions and poverty in Mozambique

    Afrobarometer, 2010
    This brief paper seeks to examine how ordinary Mozambicans experience economic trends, in view of the bright official growth and inflation rates. For this purpose, the paper uses the findings of Afrobarometer public opinion surveys from 2002, 2005 and 2008.
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    (Re)counting the poor in Peru: a multidimensional approach

    Centro de Investigación, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru, 2010
    This paper addresses the debate between the recent evolution of monetary poverty figures and the levels of deprivation of the Peruvian population. The paper relies on a multidimensional approach for poverty measurement to measure the tension between the incidence of monetary poverty and the overall level of deprivation in terms of a set of basic attributes for human development.
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    Schooling inequality, crises, and financial liberalization in Latin America

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2010
    This paper examines the relationship between structural, high inequality - measured by high levels of schooling inequality - and liberalisation of the financial sector for a sample of 37 developing and developed countries.
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    Millennium Development Goals report card: learning from progress

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2010
    This paper reviews the progress on three indicators of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), beside some factors contributing to that progress. The paper shows that most countries are making progress on most MDG keys, which confirms the old message that MDGs are achievable.

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