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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Poverty, Social protection in South Africa

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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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  Children in need of care or in need of cash? Questioning social security provisions for orphans in the context of the South African AIDS pandemic

  Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2003

  The South African debate on social security provision for children in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has focussed primarily on different mechanisms for giving cash grants to children who have been orphaned.
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  Livelihoods (un)employment and social safety nets: reflections from recent studies in KwaZulu-Natal

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper considers some methodological and substantive issues in the fields of livelihoods, unemployment and social safety nets in South Africa. This report focuses on the extent to which work and employment are reported in different types of surveys.
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  Policy expectations and programme reality: the poverty reduction and labour market impact of two public works programmes in South Africa

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This paper explores the contribution of public works to social protection in South Africa, drawing evidence from two case studies, the Gundo Lashu programme in Limpopo and the Zibambele programme in KwaZulu Natal.
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  Government spending on children in MTEF 2004/05: spotlighting social development programmes

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004

  This brief focuses on child specific government programmes financed and administered by the provincial social development departments within the South African government.
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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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  Child poverty, child socio-economic rights and Budget 2003 - The ‘right thing’ or a small step in the ‘right direction’?

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2003

  This budget brief assesses the extent to which the 2003 South African Budget addresses widespread child poverty and the delivery of children's socio-economic rights.
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  Supporting workers in the informal economy: a policy framework

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This paper argues that the informal economy is here to stay and requires appropriate regulations, laws and policies to correct biases in the existing regulatory, legal, and policy environment that favour formal enterprises and workers to the disadvantage of informal workers and enterprises.
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  Research review on social security reform and the basic income grant for South Africa

  Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa, 2002

  This paper reviews several research papers that address social security reform in South Africa, with an emphasis on the proposal for the basic income grant.
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  Social Pensions in Nambia and South Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001

  Non-contributory state pensions were introduced in South Africa in 1928.

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