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The Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: How Credible Is It? - The Baseline Projection
This is the first brief in a series of three on the 2021 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement. It considers the baseline projections of the MTBPS. In an ...
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Gangster State
When public life is structured by Family Meetings and threats of systematic economic and social exclusion, Matthew Kruger argues, we live in a gangster state.
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The Social Relief of Distress - How Has Poverty Changed Between 2019 and the Second Quarter of 2021?
This brief presents a method for estimating poverty quarter by quarter and for assessing the impact of the Social Relief of Distress grant, including the ...
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The Social Relief of Distress - How Well Did the Social Relief of Distress Grant Perform in January 2021?
The fourth wave of the National Income Dynamics Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey collected data for the month of January 2021, including information on ...
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Household Income and Household Hunger
The preceding two briefs in this series considered the measurement of hunger at the household and personal levels in the 2019 General Household Survey and the ...
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Do We Have an Adequate Measure of Hunger in South Africa? II - The National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey
The relief of hunger is often cited as a reason for the introduction of the Social Relief of Distress grant. This brief probes the extent of hunger in South ...
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Do We Have an Adequate Measure of Hunger in South Africa? I - the General Household Survey
The relief of hunger is often cited as a reason for the introduction of the Social Relief of Distress grant. This brief probes the extent of hunger in South ...
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The Social Relief of Distress - Legal and Administrative Aspects of the Social Relief of Distress Grant
This brief gives an overview of the legal context relevant to the Social Relief of Distress grant and provides an initial analysis of its adequacy.
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The Local Elections Government 2021: The Lighter (Or Larger) Side
This brief discusses the 2021 Local Government Elections.
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The prospects of legal challenges to the 2021 local government elections
This brief considers the prospects of a successful legal challenge to the 2021 local government elections. It does so by drawing insights from the ...
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