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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Cash transfers, Gender, Poverty 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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  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.