The Efficacy Of Fiscal Policy in South Africa
This paper’s objective is to inform South African debates about the feasibility of introducing a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG)
Understanding Gender and Gender Sensitive Budgeting
The aim of this training is to ensure that government planning, programming and budgeting contributes to the advancement of gender equality and the fulfilment of women’s and girls’ rights.
2021 DSL Narrative Report
The Decent Standard of Living (DSL) project is a groundbreaking project in South Africa that combines subjective and
survey data to identify key priorities needed to live a good life, and it attempts to quantify how much a person would
need monthly in order to live a socially-determined acceptable standard of living.
2021 Decent Standard of Living Colloquium Report
Introduction November 2018 saw the commencement of a research programme that would reframe the way that South Africans look at life. This research, into what ordinary people think constitutes a decent standard of life in South Africa, was a first of its kind – in a country typically focused on conditions of minimalist, absolute poverty, […]
SPII Newsletter December 2021
Basic Fact Versus Fiction Income Grant This last quarter has seen almost unparalleled academic contributions to the global call for universal basic income guarantees. SPII is proud to have been able to contribute three excellent papers during this period. In partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, SPII produced a global overview of BIG pilots, to […]
Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), Q3, SPII Analysis
Q3:2021 Quarterly Labour Force Survey Quarter: Three 2021 Quarterly Labour Force Survey, P0211 As we mark the end of another calendar year of the Corona pandemic and associated impact, The Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) presents our analysis of the main trends contained in the StatsSA Q3 2021 Quarterly Labour Force Survey as […]
Newzroom Afrika: Discussions on the QLFS Q3, 2021
Unemployment rates at an all time high based on the QLFS, Q3 2021 Isobel Frye, the director at the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute; country director at International Labour Organisation South Africa, Dr Joni Musabayana; Dr Chifipa Mhango, chief economist at The Don Consulting Group; former statistician-general, Dr Pali Lehohla; and SACP spokerperson, Dr […]
Cape Talk/702: QLFS stats call for a Basic Income Grant
The NEED for basic income grants now more than ever Christina van Straten, Basic Income Grant Advocacy intern at The Studies In Poverty And Inequality Institute, joins Cape Talk on the statistics that Statistics South Africa published its Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QFLS) yesterday for Q3 2021. The survey indicated that South Africa’s unemployment rate […]
The Public Interest Law Gathering (PILG)
PILG Final Report The Public Interest Law Gathering (PILG) is an annual civil society convening of people and organisations who use law as a tool to advance social justice in South Africa.1 Started in 2011, PILG is an annual event which brings together public interest law practitioners, NGO researchers, community activists, law students, academics and […]
SAfm: SASSA applicants raise concerns
Some grant applicants raise concerns about SASSA’s processes and spend long hours in queues. Why is this? The SASSA points in which people were able to receive their SASSA grants were closed during the pandemic, and haven’t been rectified yet. SASSA is under fire due to the anguish caused to applicants, some elderly people have […]
