Key Documents

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Combating poverty and Inequality: Structural change, social policy and politics

...argues that many current approaches to reducing poverty and inequality fail to consider key institutional, policy and political dimensions that may be both causes of poverty and inequality, and obstacles to their reduction. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), 2010.

Chronic Poverty Report 2009: Escaping poverty traps

...identifies five main traps that underpin chronic poverty; insecurity, limited citizenship, spatial disadvantage, social discrimination and poor work opportunities, and outlines key policy responses to these. Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), 2010.

Human Development Reports

...have been available since 1990. These reports present data and analysis and calls international attentions to issues and policy options that put people at the center of strategies to meet the challenges of development. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

...is a new international measure of poverty which complements income-based poverty measures by reflecting the multiple deprivations that people face at the same time across 104 developing countries. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), in collaboration with the UNDP Human Development Report, September 2010.

Towards an anti-poverty strategy for South Africa: Discussion document

...is a two-part document comprising an anti-poverty framework and strategy. Attached to the strategy is a draft programme of action. South African Presidency, 2009.

Trends in South African income distribution and poverty since the fall of apartheid

...presents a detailed analysis of changes in both poverty and inequality since the fall of Apartheid, and the potential drivers of such developments. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2010.