Joint Stakeholder Submission to the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review on the Right to Adequate Standard of Living in South Africa (March...

SPII's Contribution - Submission to UN CESCR on South Africa’s implementation of UN CESCR recommendations – composite index on the cost of living.

The Decent Standard of Living (DSL) project is a groundbreaking project in South Africa that combines subjective and survey data to identify key priorities needed...

November 2018 saw the commencement of a research programme that would reframe the way that South Africans look at life. This research, into what...

"A decent Standard of Living is possible and doable," Isobel Frye, Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute.   An article from Bloomberg, Businessweek: The...

For SPII as a collection of people it was a difficult year. We anticipated the hard lockdown by working from home in early March...

A composite report of the proceedings of the 2019 Colloquium and the 2019 Research and Publications on expanding a Decent Standard of Living in...

Address at the Decent Standard of Living Colloquium, 31 October 2019, Burgers Park Hotel, Pretoria Challenges and Contestations: Building an inclusive society and remaining...

The DSL Colloquium in Pretoria centred on ‘disrupting poverty’ and moving towards providing a decent life for all. The adoption of the Decent Standard...

In South Africa, each person has a constitutional right to live a life of dignity, a right to access to food and shelter, and...

There is a crucial link that exists between the right to a decent standard of life and the right to DIGNITY. The right to...

Colloquium on a Decent Standard of Living. #QualityofLife Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute Parktonian Hotel, Braamfontein 26-27 September 2017 Introduction In 2016, the...

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A Decent Standard of Living will be released for the first time in South Africa on Tuesday 20 November. This standard is set at...

An Introduction to the Decent Standard of Living threshold and the Decent Standard of Living Index. This is a PowerPoint presentation of the Social Security...

This report presents a Decent Standard of Living (DSL) and DSL Index for South Africa. The approach is based on a concept of relative...

There is a crucial link that exists between the right to a decent standard of life and the right to dignity. The right to dignity...

Standard of living – poverty reduction goal of truly international development Should work remain reducing poverty? Maybe it’s time to see a fair standard...

Overview What is a Decent Standard of Living (DSL) threshold? How might a DSL measure be useful? How will the DSL and Decent Standard...

The discussion regarding a decent standard of living in South Africa has received renewed impetus with the ratification in 2015 by the South African...

The dialogue sought to get to the heart of what citizens desire and deem enough to feel safe, fed, secure and enabled to perform...

By Isobel Frye — Policy Brief: Participative Construction of a Basket of Basic Goods and Services for a Decent Living Level in a Democratic South Africa On...

By Isobel Frye — This Policy Brief sets out the parameters of a new study into developing a minimum living level being undertaken by SPII and contains...

On 27 September 2013, Studies in Poverty and Inequality (SPII) and the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung (FES) held the first consultative team meeting to discuss a National Minimum...

Introduction What constitutes a decent standard of living for people in South Africa? The aim of this ongoing project is to derive an understanding...

The National Development Plan (NDP) aims to eliminate all poverty and reduce inequality in South Africa by 2030 .[1] The poverty line used to...

The third Decent Living Level Seminar, held on the 30th of July 2014, further explored modalities for promoting dialogue towards reaching consensus on a...

Poverty is a contested concept; and it is contested with good reason. Arguments over how poverty should be conceptualised, defined and measured go beyond semantics...

South Africa’s largest active labour market intervention (ALMP) is the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP). Its first five‐year phase has been completed and a...

Unusually for a society undergoing such a recent democratic transition the South African policy environment reflects high levels of comparability to, and many topical...