Final Policy Brief Towards Mangaung 2012
Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) hosted a high level seminar on 6 July 2012 to debate how the ANC policy conference might shape the immediate and longer term interests for South Africa’s unemployed, working poor, working middle class, business elite and political elite respectively around the following […]
Concept note (2012) Linking of cash transfers to local economic development
Despite robust economic growth averaging 3.5% to 5.2% between 2004 and 2007,1 South Africa remains amongst the most unequal societies in the world. One of the main reasons for South Africa’s high levels of poverty and inequality amongst the previously disadvantaged is a result of high unemployment and a lack of labour force participation in […]
A supply side intervention in support of local economic development (LED)-Policy Brief January 2012
The role of local economic development (LED) represents policies to redress the economic marginalisation and dualism in the South African economy as a result of the legacy of apartheid in which economic activity was concentrated in certain areas at the expense of rural development, in particular in the former homelands. LED further aims to address […]
The role of social grants in supporting local economic development (LED)-Policy Brief January 2012
In a country such as South Africa where inequality levels are high combined with low levels of labour market participation, social grants have played an important role in supporting households to attain some minimum standard of living. Grants have also assisted in achieving human developmental goals including improved education and health outcomes 1while also reducing […]
Access to Socio-Economic Rights for Non-Nationals in the Southern African Development Community
This report was prepared as part of research into the rights of non-nationals in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It was agreed at the beginning of the enquiry that an investigation of this nature should be accompanied by an enquiry into the levels of access of nationals themselves to socio-economic rights in each country […]
South Africa: poverty, social security, civil society, triangulating transformation
How best can policy makers make an impact on improving the lives of people living in poverty and destitution? That is the question that seizes governments across the world, both in developing and industrialized nations. Identifying the right policies to ensure sustained economic growth is not sufficient to ensure that the benefits of that […]
Review of Education Policy
The brief from the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) was to develop a background paper that could inform a broader research project for the development of a measurement matrix in respect of the right to basic education and further education (limited to secondary education). Full document: Review of Education Policy
Review of the Right to Housing
The following review of South African housing policy and development since 1994 forms part of a larger research project run by the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII). This broader project seeks to compile a measurement matrix capturing the progressive realisation of socio- economic rights by the government, as required by the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 108 of 1996.
Monitoring the Progressive Realisation of Socio-Economic Rights – a Review of the Development of Social Security Policy in South Africa
This policy review has been undertaken as part of a broader project conducted by the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII). The objectives of the larger project are to investigate the manner in which policy making to expand access to socio-economic rights in fact aligns with the jurisprudential guidance handed down by the Constitutional Court, to undertake baseline policy studies and to develop an indicative matrix for the monitoring of the progressive or regressive measures of current and future policies.
Submission to The Portfolio Committee on Social Development SPII (3)
1. The Portfolio Committee has called for the public to submit written submissions on the above draft amendment bill to the Social Assistance Act 13 of 2004 (the SAA) by or before 16 April 2010. The written submissions are to be followed by oral hearings on 20 and 21 April 2010. 2. Studies in Poverty […]
