This article assembles a novel dataset covering 42 countries from 1985 to 2020 to explore the impact of public spending on social protection on gross domestic product (GDP).

Six months after the beginning of the financial year, an Adjusted Budget is tabled which shows how government is planning to change its spending plans to deal with any unexpected circumstances. Unused funds, including the money from its rainy day fund and money which departments do not think that they are going to spend, are moved or removed through the Adjusted Budget.

The Praxis Project sought to better understand the workings of spaces for participation and engagement between civil society, political parties, public institutions to test ways to expand these in subsequent actions, with the aim of advancing pro-poor social, economic and policy alternatives in South Africa.

To provide for the designation of certain land; to regulate the subdivision of such land and the settlement of persons thereof and to provide for matters connected therewith.

This document - The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) - is the end of one process and the beginning
of another. The document is the result of many months of consultation within the ANC, its Alliance partners and other
mass organisations in the wider civil society. This consultation has resulted in the policy framework contained in this document.