rnPovertyTimothy QuinlanrnHEARDGina ZiervogelDepartment of Environmental and Geographical SciencespRegional Environmental ChangeCasale M, Drimie S, Quinlan T, Ziervogel G. Understanding Vulnerability in Southern Africa: comparative findings using a multiple-stressor approach in South Africa and Malawi. ...
The war on poverty is South Africa's priority and challenge. Many poverty alleviation programmes have been established in South Africa in an effort to overcome poverty. However, poverty alleviation projects have had little impact on the poverty profile of the country. Poverty continues to be pervas...
The Dual Problem of Unemployment and Time Poverty in South Africa: Understanding Their LinkagesThis chapter explores the coexistence of time-squeeze and unemployment and underemployment using the 2000 South African national Time Use Survey. Individuals who are both time-squeezed and lacking......
Since juncao was introduced as part of China's south cooperation more than two decades ago, it has helped to effectively alleviate poverty and preserve the environment in over a hundred countries where the grass is farmed. It has been more than 70 years since China started its foreign aid ...
An expanded understanding of poverty as a barrier t... S Meny-Gibert,V Dieltiens - 《Journal of Education》 被引量: 18发表: 2012年 Reconstructing Education To Affirm Unity and Diversity Examines efforts to affirm diversity in higher education in South Africa and the United States. Suggests ...
This paper examines the impacts natural disasters have on poor communities all over the world, and the ways in which poverty and social vulnerability exacerbate disaster risk. We cannot reduce the risks poor communities face from natural disasters without addressing poverty. To address poverty reduction...
How do role players in the education sector in South Africa understand the interrelationship between gender equality, poverty and education, and what strategies are pursued to reduce poverty? In this Focus I explore these questions by drawing on data from school and provincial education department ...
Child povertyaccounts for half of the world’s poor with 1 out of 5 children experiencing extreme poverty.4 Roughly 84% of people experiencing extreme poverty live in sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia.3 Worldwide, the poverty rate is three times higher in rural areas than in urban cities.4...
in terms of which a political and social system of white minority rule andracial segregationwas brutally enforced, have had lasting effects, felt well beyond the 1994 transition to formal democracy. These include disproportionately high levels of unevenly distributed violent crime, poverty, and staggeri...
Over the past few years, a growing number of scholars have explored environmental deterioration and its connection to various indicators acting as proxies