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Economic empowerment in firms : evidence from the eThekwini medium & large firm survey.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2017-09-13)Abstract not available. -
Exploring the informal business sector in Clairwood, Durban, South Africa,
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2017-09-13)This paper aims to investigate alternative measures of value amongst marginalised citizens in South Africa. More specifically, the objective of this study is to understand the value of informal business within the under ... -
Adaptation to the impacts of climate Change on agriculture in eThekwini: a literature review.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2016-09-14)The eThekwini Municipality has shown strong innovative strategies and activities on climate change adaptation. Putting the improvement of the quality of life of its urban poor remains the main goal in the official planning ... -
Early childhood development and South Africa: a literature review.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2016-08-01)Early Childhood Development (ECD) has become a priority sector within South Africa, particularly in respect to ensuring equity and high quality of care for the youngest members (ages 0 to 5 years old) of the population. ... -
A review of contested perspectives on climate change finance.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2016-09-12)There is an overwhelming consensus that climate change is a reality that requires urgent attention through mitigation and adaptation strategies. A slow rise in aggregate funding and investment towards projects which ... -
Geographies of development: without the poor.
(Sage., 2012)Some contemporary narratives of development give privileged status to middle classes in the global South. In the face of intractable poverty, policy makers take heart from the success stories of ordinary people who have, ... -
Geographies of development II: cash transfers and the reinvention of development for the poor.
(Sage., 2013)Since the mid-1990s, a number of governments in the global South have instituted programmes which provide regular cash grants to poor people. The results of cash transfer programmes have been impressed those searching for ... -
Cookie cutter cooperatives in the KwaZulu-Natal school nutrition programme.
(Taylor and Francis., 2013-06-04)This article examines an initiative by the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government to increase the income opportunities emerging from the school feeding programme. Since the inception of the programme, small medium and micro ... -
Promoting and prioritising reproductive health commodities : understanding the emergency contraception value chain in South Africa.
(Women's Health and Action Research Centre (WHARC), 2010)Use of emergency contraception is low in South Africa despite high rates of unplanned and unwanted pregnancies. Existing studies have demonstrated that women access emergency contraception from commercial pharmacies rather ... -
Monitoring the impact of land reform on quality of life : a South African case study.
(2002)This paper outlines the approach that is utilized by the Monitoring and Evaluation directorate of the Department of Land Affairs (DLA) in South Africa in assessing the quality of life for the land Reform beneficiaries. ... -
Missing opportunities for preventing unwanted pregnancy: a qualitative study of emergency contraception.
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2010)BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY:High levels of unplanned pregnancy among young people are a huge public health problem in South Africa. However, use of emergency contraception (EC) remains low. Studies suggest that providers ... -
Investigating the well-being of rural women in South Africa.
(2010)In this Focus piece we explore differences in the well-being of men and women in rural and urban areas. We use quantitative data from a nationally representative household survey in 2008 to measure income poverty and access ... -
The male marital earnings premium in the context of bride wealth payments: evidence from South Africa.
(2010)This study explores the nature of the male marital earnings premium in the context of a developing country in which the payment of bride wealth is practiced. We use data from the South African Labor Force Survey of September ... -
Revisiting informal employment and segementation in the South African labour market.
(2008)This study revisits the definition of informal employment, and it investigates the puzzle of high open unemployment co-existing with relatively limited informal employment in South Africa. We estimate earnings equations ... -
Is there evidence of a wage penalty to female part-time employment in South Africa?
(2008-09)In this paper, we investigate female part-time employment in South Africa. Using household survey data for South Africa from 1995 to 2004, we show that women are over-represented in part-time employment, and that the growth ... -
Households and labour migration in post-apartheid South Africa.
(2010)This study compares measures of labour migration and remittance receipt in the National Income Dynamics Study with measures generated using earlier national household surveys conducted in South Africa. Household survey ...
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