1. Livelihoods, resources and land reform / Paul Hebinck and Charlie Shackleton -- 2. Anger, policy, data : perspectives on South Africa's 'poverty question' / Michael Aliber -- 3. Land reform and poverty reduction in South Africa / Edward Lahiff -- 4. What is a 'smallholder'? class-analytic...

1. A tale of three cities and two rural areas -- 2. You can't compare us with them -- 3. Children -- 4. Older people -- 5. The built environment -- 6. Air pollution -- 7. Renewable energy -- 8. Resilience -- 9. What do they do that we don't do? : the role of age and gender in political...

Background: There is considerable evidence that being involved in compensation processes has a negative impact on claimants' health. Previous studies suggested that this negative effect is caused by a stressful compensation process: claimants suffered from a lack of communication, a lack of...

The paper verifies the Azzimonti et al. (2014) conclusions on a sample of 53 African countries for the period 1996-2008. Authors of the underlying study have established theoretical underpinnings for a negative nexus between rising public debt and inequality in OECD nations. We assess the...

In the first discussion paper in this two paper series, Filer and Wood (2021) derived two measures of human well-being from the 2000 national census and sought to establish the relative strength of their association with 12 geographical variables in a comparative study of the 85 partially rural...

This paper disaggregates human development indicators across disability status to assess the situation of persons and households with disabilities. The paper uses 24 censuses and general household surveys from 21 low- and middle-income countries. Disability status is measured through...