Intra‐family Transfers and Income‐pooling

Posel, Dorrit

doi:10.1111/j.1813-6982.2001.tb00023.x

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“…The most common form of human mobility in South Africa has been rural to urban migration (Crush et al 2005), as rural areas are characterised by high levels of poverty and limited economic activity. During apartheid, movements of labour were mainly temporary, due to the fact that the permanent settlement of migrants was highly restricted (Posel 2001). Following the democratic transition in 1994, this trend was not altered as expected, and migration remains cyclical, although the proportion of female temporary migrants has increased (Collinson 2010).…”

Section: Remittancesmentioning

confidence: 84%

Social grants, remittances, and food security: does the source of income matter?

Waidler

Devereux

2019

Food Sec.

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Large numbers of South Africans receive social grants (public transfers) or remittances (private transfers), and yet one in four South Africans is food insecure. The purpose of this paper is to address two questions: do social grants and remittances improve food security and nutritional outcomes? If so, do these impacts differ between public and private transfers? Drawing on the National Income Dynamic Survey (NIDS), South Africa's first nationally representative survey that follows more than 28,000 individuals over time, we found significant and positive impacts of the Older Person's Grant and of remittances on the dietary diversity index, but not of the Child Support Grant. Moreover, we found no effect on food expenditure or on anthropometry (BMI) by the Older Person's Grant, or remittances. However, some positive effects were found on children's BMI from the Child Support Grant. We discuss why we observe different effects from different transfers, as well as giving several reasons why income transfers are failing to close the nutritional deficits in South Africa.

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Section: Remittancesmentioning

confidence: 84%

Social grants, remittances, and food security: does the source of income matter?

Waidler

Devereux

2019

Food Sec.

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“…As the historical evidence on fostering and remittance behaviour in South Africa and the results suggest, the ties and bonds between family members were not only practical and social, but at times involve financial assistance or material support for the rural household or individual (Madhavan & Schatz, 2007;McDaniel & Zulu, 1996;Posel, 2005). While financial support, in-kind assistance and physical care provision for those affected by HIV were generally underpinned by unconditional moral obligations to kin, not all the motivations for support and care were easy to classify.…”

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Obligation to family during times of transition: care, support and the response to HIV and AIDS in rural South Africa

2016

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In rural South Africa, high HIV prevalence has the potential to affect the care and support that kin are able to provide to those living with HIV. Despite this, families seem to be largely resilient and a key source of care and support to family affected by HIV. In this article, we explore the motivations for the provision of care and support by kin. We use the results of a small-scale in-depth qualitative study conducted in 10 households over 6 months in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to show that family obligation and conditional reciprocity operate in varying degrees and build social capital. We highlight the complexity of kin relations where obligation is not guaranteed or is limited, requiring the consideration of policy measures that provide means of social support that are not reliant on the family.

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“…Although we cannot quantify this hypothesis using our data, based on our decades-long research in the region, we believe that poor socioeconomic conditions may lead to risk taking behaviours and potentially reduce women's negotiating power for safer sex. [30][31][32] Extremely high sub-geographical level infection rates (ranged from 5 to 23 per 100 person-year, data not shown), provided evidence for high-levels of condomless sex between infected and uninfected individuals. In the age-specific analysis, while 51% and 65% of the STIs among women <25 and 25-34 years old were exclusively associated with geographical diversity; this proportion was only 23% among 35 years or older.…”

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Quantifying geographical diversity in sexually transmitted infections using population attributable risk: results from HIV prevention trials in South Africa

2021

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In this study, we investigated spatial diversities of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and quantified their impacts on the STIs using population attributable risk (PAR%). The study population was 7,557 women who participated in several HIV prevention trials from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Our results provide compelling evidence for substantial geographical diversities on STI incidence rates in the region. Their population-level impacts on the STIs exceeded the combined impacts of the individual risk factors considered in this study (PAR%: 41% (<25 years), 52% (25-34 years) and 34% (35+ years). When all these factors are considered together, PAR% was the highest among younger women (PAR%: 67%, 82% and 50% for <25, 25-34 and 35+ years old respectively). Results from our study will bring greater insight into the previous research by increasing our understanding of the impacts of the sub-geographical level variations of STI prevalence and incidence rates in the region.

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Intra‐family Transfers and Income‐pooling

Cited by 41 publications

References 21 publications

Social grants, remittances, and food security: does the source of income matter?

Social grants, remittances, and food security: does the source of income matter?

Obligation to family during times of transition: care, support and the response to HIV and AIDS in rural South Africa

Quantifying geographical diversity in sexually transmitted infections using population attributable risk: results from HIV prevention trials in South Africa

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