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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Child Support Grant (CSG)"”.
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Cash transfers and child health: understanding the barriers and facilitators to early application and receipt of the child support grant in Langa Township, Cape Town
The Child Support Grant (CSG) is increasingly a social protection instrument of choice aimed at alleviating child poverty and malnutrition in South Africa, with over 13 million children as beneficiaries of the Child Support Grant (CSG). Timely receipt of the grant, within the first three months of …
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The social assistance act has been interpreted to delegate the decisions on the qualifying age limit and income threshold for the child support grant to two executive ministers. is the delegation constitutional?
… authority to them to determine the age limit of children and the income threshold of caregivers who qualify for the Child Support Grant (CSG). The Minister of SD, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, has promulgated two sets of regulations in terms of s32 of the Act. The first set was …
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The relationship between child support grant and teenage pregnancy
This study examined the relationship between the Child Support Grant (CSG) and teenage pregnancy. The first objective of the study was to establish the relationship, if any, between teenage pregnancy and the Child Support Grant. The second objective was to determine whether or not the variable of …
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Is South Africa's social protection system addressing the causes or the symptoms of poverty? : the case of the Child Support Grant
… means of poverty reduction. Focusing on the Child Support Grant (CSG), empirical analysis is then applied to examine whether the underlying causes of poverty are being addressed. Using the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 1 Dataset, the effects of the CSG on households' expenditure …
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The associations of cash transfers and childcare for the development of children born to adolescent and young mothers in South Africa
Exposure to adversities strongly predicts early childbearing among adolescent girls and young women. Early motherhood is associated with negative effects on their children's developmental outcomes, but the factors contributing to the well-being of children born to adolescent mothers remain …
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A small push goes a long way: An evaluation of the cumulative effects of a cash transfer on South African youth
… human capital. South Africa launched the child support grant (CSG) in 1998, an unconditional cash transfer for children below the age of seven. By 2017, the program boasted twelve million beneficiaries, with an upper age limit of eighteen. Globally, initial evaluations of cash transfers …
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A study of state-based social assistance provision and its influence on the developmental character of the South African State: the case of the child support grant
… social assistance provision, in the form of Child Support Grant (CSG), influences the character of a developmental state. Social assistance provision is understood to be part of a developmental state response to the needs of its citizens. I have argued in this thesis that CSG influences the …
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Quantifying balance for casual inference: An information theoretic perspective
… distance measure to the well-studied National Supported Work Demonstration (NSW) Programme. It shows that the entropic distance measure performs well in identifying non-experimental control groups that yield better estimates of the average treatment effect when result from an experiment is …
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Ramification of Social Assistance Act 13 of 2004 intentions, on social relief programme based on Child Support Grant at Ha-Mutsha Area in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province
The child-support grant is one of the social assistance programmes, aimed at alleviating poverty. It is guided by the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) Act 09 of 2004 and Social Assistance Act 13 of 2004. Social assistance programmes have created dependency on government and the …