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Research data: POVERTY
2015 Linking universities and marginalised communities: South African case studies of innovation focused on livelihoods in informal settings
Linking Universities and marginalised communities examines how South African universities engage with the informal sector in marginalised co...
2015 Profiling livelihoods assets in South Africa: inequalities, dynamics and strategies
This report showed that there are mix views on whether poverty has increased or decreased in post-apartheid South Africa. What is clear thou...
2015 Developing young people's capacities to navigate adversity
There are multiple factors that can help interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Education and employment are central: keep...
2015 A generation apart?: youth attitudes towards social inequality
Despite depressing poverty, unemployment, corruption and greed that besets their societies, young people who participated in a recent roundt...
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