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Universal child benefits critical in reducing poverty, UNICEF and ODI report finds
PRETORIA, 17 June 2020 –, Universal child benefits, such as unconditional cash payments or tax transfers, are critical in the fight against child poverty, yet are only available in 1 in 10 countries worldwide, according to a new report published today by UNICEF and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) The repo...
Report
Review of the Child Support Grant
The South African Constitution enshrines the right of all to access ‘appropriate social assistance’ from the state if they are unable to support themselves and their dependants. Social assistance refers specifically to an income transfer provided by government in the form of grants or financial awards to poor hous...
Report
Quantitative analysis of the impact of the Child Support Grant
This report presents new evidence on the developmental impacts of South Africa’s Child Support Grant (CSG), widely regarded as one of the government’s most successful social protection interventions and the country’s largest social cash transfer programme in terms of the number of participants. This nonexperimenta...