Related Publications: South Africa

This paper uses project and household data to examine the ability of 100 or so public works projects in Western Cape Province, South Africa, to target benefits—both direct and indirect—to those living below the poverty line.

This paper examines the relationship between community participation and the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty.

An important adjunct of apartheid has been the absence of credible and comprehensive data on which policies, such as poverty reduction strategies, can be grounded.

This brief examines the key roles that women play in ensuring food security and makes three recommendations of ways to strengthen the food security through policies and programs that enhance women's abilities and resources to fulfill their ro

The paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective models of the household.

El papel de la mujer en la economía se ha subestimado con frecuencia y su trabajo en la agricultura ha sido invisible por mucho tiempo.

This paper examines attrition in the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (1993–1998) and assesses the extent of attrition bias for a specific empirical example.

Longitudinal household data can have considerable advantages over much more widely used cross-sectional data. The collection of longitudinal data, however, may be difficult and expensive.