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Research data: POVERTY
2013 Interaction between towers of learning and poor communities: four case studies
Interaction between universities and marginalised communities around innovation activities that create or protect livelihoods, are rare in S...
Download this report2013 Challenges and strategies among the poor: focus on urban agriculture in KwaMashu, Durban, South Africa
Urban agriculture in South Africa historically has been labelled as an illegal activity. The problems caused by this labelling have been com...
2013 Poverty, AIDS and child health: identifying highest-risk children in South Africa
Identifying children at the highest risk of negative health effects is a prerequisite to effective public health policies in Southern Africa...
2013 Does widespread lack undermine the socially perceived necessities approach to defining poverty?: evidence from South Africa
The socially perceived necessities or 'consensual' approach to defining and measuring poverty is based on an assumption that it is possible ...