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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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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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From Limited Government to Social Justice and Development: Progressive Constitutionalism in the Era of Globalisation

While Southern countries have largely failed to bring about a new international economic order, they have been more successful in shaping the international agenda in the field of human rights, from the Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its recent Protocol.

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