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Decent Standard of Living
ZA UWC RA ZA UWC SPI 2025-0002-ZA UWC SPI 2025-0002-5
Part of Social Policy Initiative

The aim of this ongoing project is to derive an understanding of what constitutes a broadly acceptable living level that should be used to reflect a basic living level. Central to this ambitious target is an awareness of the necessity of moving away from the minimalist ‘poverty lines’ that have been used in the design and evaluation of anti-poverty programmes. The use of such very basic levels to characterise the state of poverty is dangerous in an upper middle- income country such as South Africa which is already characterized by one of the highest levels of income inequality globally. This project is thus inherently rights-based, rather than being a technocratic exercise. It is about trying to understand by asking ordinary people what such a decent living level should be for all in a post- Apartheid democracy.

Social Policy Initiative
ZA UWC RA UWC Land-2024-0001-UWC Land 2024-0001-1-UWC Land 2024-0001-1-18 · 2016
Part of UWC Land

Commissioned report for High Level Panel on the assessment of key legislation and the acceleration of fundamental change, an initiative of the Parliament of South Africa.

Republic of South Africa
ZA UWC RA UWC Land-2024-0001-UWC Land 2024-0001-1-UWC Land 2024-0001-1-18-UWC Land 2024-0001-1-18 · Item · 2016
Part of UWC Land

Commissioned report for High Level Panel on the assessment of key legislation and the acceleration of fundamental change, an initiative of the Parliament of South Africa.

Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies