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  Predicted poverty impacts of expanding the Community Work Program me in South Africa: an analysis of income poverty and inequality

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2012

  The Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS), which guarantees low-skilled work to poor, unemployed individuals and in the process contributes to the creation of productive community assets and services.
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  Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition

  2012

  Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’. Yet no clear consensus has so far emerged concerning many basic design choices and implementation of social protection policies and programs.
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  Poverty transitions among older households in Brazil and South Africa

  Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2011

  The knowledge gap relating to the dynamics of wellbeing and poverty among older households
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  Developing a social assistance strategy for the SADC region based on the success of Brazil’s Bolsa Familia programme

  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.
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  The social and economic effects of the Disability Grant for people with disabilities and their households: a qualitative study in KwaZulu Natal Province

  School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2007

  People with disabilities (PWD) face physical and attitudinal barriers to participation in education, the labour market and development processes. In South Africa, there is a need for appropriate social assistance for PWD. Currently this is done through a means-tested cash transfer known as the Disability Grant (DG).
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  Social protection in sub-Saharan Africa: will the green shoots blossom?

  Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2010

  Interest in social protection has grown rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade. This paper provides an overview of the recent extension of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Cash transfers: to condition or not to condition?

  Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2009

  In response to the recent food crisis and global financial crisis, the G-20 countries and the World Bank announced increased spending on social protection programmes, including cash-based systems.
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  Pension reform and old age grants in South Africa

  University of Pretoria, 2007

  The absence of a mandatory tier of the South African contributory system makes it unique from an international perspective. Furthermore, the absence of any form of state provision (or delivery) of an earnings-related retirement system is unusual.
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  The private affairs of public pensions in South Africa: debt, development and corporatization

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2009

  Toward the end of its rule, the apartheid government in South Africa converted its contributory pension system for employees in the public sector from one that effectively functioned as a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) scheme to a fully funded scheme.
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  Pensions in Africa

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009

  In sub-Saharan Africa less than 10% of the older population has a contributory pension. This paper discusses why the development of pension systems is important for the African region. It also looks at the current pension arrangements in selected African countries: Botswana, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia

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