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Balancing social welfare and private maintenance: the alleviation of poverty in South Africa
South African (family) lawyers continue to focus on the private maintenance obligation as the primary instrument for alleviating poverty.
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Institutional Innovations and Investments: Creating an Enabling Environment for Emerging Agro-Enterprises in Africa
Agro-enterprises make important contributions to employment and income generation in developing countries, occupying a strategic position in manufacturing that comprise an essential supply-source of food and fiber production and represent an important demand-driver for agricultural products.
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Regime shifts in social-ecological systems: impacts on ecosystem services and implications for poverty alleviation
Regime shifts refer to large, persistent changes in the structure and function of complex systems such as intertwined social-ecological systems (SES).
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Good Governance and Poverty Relief
The project explores the hypothesis that the eradication of inequalities (especially the alleviation of poverty) in developing regions and especially in Africa is directly dependent on the practice of good governance – not only by governments, but also in the corporate and NGO sectors of society.
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Aid flows to Africa in the context of continued global destabilising shocks, uncertainty, renewed challenges and aid dependence
Africa has been dependent on official development assistance or aid for decades.
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Reviewing poverty as a human-nature disaster to achieve sustainable livelihood outcomes
Ending poverty has been the world’s priority for decades.
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Liberal Constitutionalism, property Rights, and the Assault on poverty
Frank I Michelman. 2012. Liberal Constitutionalism, property Rights, and the Assault on poverty. Stellenbosch Law Review, 22 (3), pp 706–723
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Using Courts of Law to Tackle Poverty and Social Exclusion: The Case of Post-2010 Kenya
Oloka-Onyango, Joe. 2016. Using Courts of Law to Tackle Poverty and Social Exclusion: The Case of Post-2010 Kenya. Law, Democracy & Developm...
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The Importance of Grasslands in Providing Ecosystem Services: Opportunities for Poverty Alleviation
Egoh, Benis N, Jan Bengtsson, Regina Lindborg, James M Bullock, Adam P Dixon, and Mathieu Rouget. 2016. The Importance of Grasslands in Prov...
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Sustainable Transformation in Health, Education and Agriculture: How Africa Could Profit from Leapfrogging
African countries rank low in almost all development indicators.
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Aid Effectiveness and Policy Coherence for Development: Donor Policies and Practices in Comparative Perspective
This research project explores the extent to which donor countries’ aid and non-aid policies work together in the interests of development, as well as the extent to which donors work with each other and recipient governments.
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Food and nutrition security in rural communities
A book is being developed which takes into account multiple objectives of providing enough food at household and individual level, an acceptable monetary income and sustainable production under the constraints of limited access to resources (land, credit, water, technology, information, level of education and more), dependency on remittances and social security programs, and limited access to markets.
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The provision of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation
How society chooses to use land and allocate resources drives economic development and environmental quality.
