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1	Household socio-economic status, social support and infant and child growth in urban South Africa : a cohort study from 1990 Willey, Barbara Annouscha January 2007 (has links) The rapid political, economic and social changes experienced by South Africans from 1991, combined with socio-economic inequalities ingrained in South African society at this time, made the early 1990s a unique and well-suited period to investigate child growth inequalities. Furthermore, recent estimates of low birth weight and stunting (≤ 3 years), showing prevalence of 15% (Chen et aI., 2006) and 25.5% (Labadarios, 1999) respectively, indicate that poor intrauterine and postnatal growth patterns continue to represent considerable public health issues in this setting. This study aimed to investigate associations of birth measures of household SES and social support with infant/child growth in urban South Africa. Anthropometric, demographic, socioeconomic and social support data for quantitative analyses were obtained from the 1990 Bt20 cohort (n=3275). 339.460968
2	Risk-spreading strategies and vulnerability to poverty among rural households : The case of Tsianda village in Makhado Municipality, L impopo Province Madzivhandila, Thanyani Selby January 2010 (has links) Thesis (MPA) --University of Limpopo, 2010 / Rural households have always faced a variety of risks which rendered them vulnerable to poverty; hence, they have continuously adopted different risk-spreading strategies aimed at reducing and/or de-concentrating the risks that they face. However, there is always a chance that risk-spreading strategies adopted by rural households could intensify or increase the levels of vulnerability to poverty, because most of them are too informal and ineffective. The study examines different risks that households in the rural areas face, including their implication for levels of vulnerability to poverty. The effects of risk-spreading strategies on household level of vulnerability are analysed using a sample of 100 households from Tsianda village. The survey results reflect that a variety of risks faced in the village have a cumulative effect on households’ vulnerability to poverty. However, the risk-spreading strategies appear to be more helpful for the better-off households than for the poor, because the former experience short-term risks whereas the latter face apparently multiple perpetual risks. The village’s political, social, economic, cultural, institutional, technological and environmental contexts seem to perpetuate the status quo against the efforts of the poor households. The study concludes that the political,social, economic, cultural, institutional, technological and environmental contexts in the rural area have a huge impact on the concentration of risks that households face, the risk-spreading that they adopt and also their level of vulnerability to poverty. Hence, the poorer households’ risk-spreading strategies are not effective to reduce and de-concentrate the risks; moreover theyintroduce them to new risks and high level of vulnerability to poverty. / University of Limpopo Risk-spreading strategies Poverty Rural households 339.460968 Poverty Rural poor -- South Africa -- Limpopo
3	Poverty reduction strategies in South Africa Mbuli, Bhekizizwe Ntuthuko 31 March 2008 (has links) Between 45-57% of South Africans are estimated to be engulfed by poverty. In an attempt to identify policy instruments that could help change this status quo, the various strategies that have been implemented in countries (e.g. China, Vietnam and Uganda) that are known to have been relatively successful in reducing poverty are reviewed. In the process, this dissertation discusses the literature regarding poverty, with a particular emphasis on the definition, measurement and determinants thereof. Furthermore, South Africa's anti-poverty strategies are discussed. It turns out that these have met limited success. This is largely due to insufficient pro-poor economic growth, weak implementation/administration at the municipal level, slow asset redistribution, high income/wealth inequality, low job generation rate by SMME's, high HIV/AIDS infection rate, public corruption and inadequate monitoring of poverty. Therefore, if meaningful progress towards poverty reduction is to be achieved, the government needs to deal with the foregoing constraints accordingly. / Economics / M.Comm. (Economics) Poverty Poverty reduction Anti-poverty strategies Poverty alleviation Safety nets Absolute poverty Chronic poverty Transient poverty Relative poverty Inflation Social security system Head count ratio Gini-coefficient Pro-poor economic growth Globalisation Unemployment Human capital Unskilled labour Productive assets Trickle- down effect principle Basic needs HIV/AIDS Land reform programme Infrastructure investment Household Natural disasters Household head SMME Population growth Former homelands Market access Good governance Apartheid Democracy South Africa China Vietnam Uganda African National Congress 339.460968 Poverty -- South Africa
4	Poverty reduction strategies in South Africa Mbuli, Bhekizizwe Ntuthuko 31 March 2008 (has links) Between 45-57% of South Africans are estimated to be engulfed by poverty. In an attempt to identify policy instruments that could help change this status quo, the various strategies that have been implemented in countries (e.g. China, Vietnam and Uganda) that are known to have been relatively successful in reducing poverty are reviewed. In the process, this dissertation discusses the literature regarding poverty, with a particular emphasis on the definition, measurement and determinants thereof. Furthermore, South Africa's anti-poverty strategies are discussed. It turns out that these have met limited success. This is largely due to insufficient pro-poor economic growth, weak implementation/administration at the municipal level, slow asset redistribution, high income/wealth inequality, low job generation rate by SMME's, high HIV/AIDS infection rate, public corruption and inadequate monitoring of poverty. Therefore, if meaningful progress towards poverty reduction is to be achieved, the government needs to deal with the foregoing constraints accordingly. / Economics / M.Comm. (Economics) Poverty Poverty reduction Anti-poverty strategies Poverty alleviation Safety nets Absolute poverty Chronic poverty Transient poverty Relative poverty Inflation Social security system Head count ratio Gini-coefficient Pro-poor economic growth Globalisation Unemployment Human capital Unskilled labour Productive assets Trickle- down effect principle Basic needs HIV/AIDS Land reform programme Infrastructure investment Household Natural disasters Household head SMME Population growth Former homelands Market access Good governance Apartheid Democracy South Africa China Vietnam Uganda African National Congress 339.460968 Poverty -- South Africa

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