SAGA Progress Report - South Africa

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SAGA Progress Report
April, 2003

I. RESEARCH
6. South Africa

In the last six months we have worked with DPRU to help them develop their framework for research under the SAGA program, viewing this as an integrated part of their overall research strategy. Three main activities have been advanced: (i) a research proposal to SISERA on education, labor markets, and poverty in post-Apartheid South Africa; (ii) a research proposal to SAGA-Cornell on comparing poverty and standards of living in 1995 and 2000, the first five years of the post-Apartheid period; and (iii) a volume of papers on poverty in South Africa ten years after Apartheid.

In the next six months we will (i) finalize and submit the proposal to SISERA; (ii) finalize the proposal on the 1995-2000 comparison and begin work with a view to submitting a draft paper for the DPRU annual conference in September and (iii) finalize table of contents of the volume and commission papers, under the SAGA-Cornell umbrella.

The research program, especially the 1995-2000 comparison, is interacting closely with technical assistance on poverty analysis, for which DPRU, in collaboration with NIEP (another SISERA institution), is developing a course targeted at the historically disadvantaged universities. The course will be held in June/July, 2003.

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