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The ILO offers official guidance on living wages
A living wage should allow a worker to lead a decent life.
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3 years ago
A decent standard of living costs R7 911
The Decent Standard of Living measure offers us a fresh way of looking at the living wage. This measure defines what makes a decent standard of living and it is made of the perceptions of our people. This measure is based on a set of 34 socially perceived necessities for a decent life. If you have these things, you have a decent standard of living.
Decent Standard of Living Colloquium Report | 2021
This report is the outcome of our 2021 DSL Colloquium, which presented an updated list of Socially Perceived Necessities (SPNs). The SPNs illustrate what South Africans consider essential living conditions and/or possessions needed to live a decent life.
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4 years ago
The living wage is dead, Long live the living wage!
This one goes out to the trade unionists and anyone else who understands that what few gains the working class have made, they have made through struggle.
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5 years ago
Double lockdown
How do we slow the spread of Covid-19 without shutting down the livelihoods of poor households?
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5 years ago
Applying a Decent Standard of Living (DSL) measure towards a coherent policy design
In the context of policy making in South Africa, it is easy to lose the big picture of the direction in which the country hopes to move. We unpack some of the policy implications for the DSL.
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5 years ago
Where does the DSL come from?
We now have a socially derived definition of a decent standard of living (DSL) in South Africa. The DSL was developed using simple steps that included what ordinary people thought.
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5 years ago
There are more ways to live a decent life than just through money
South Africa’s government has struggled for many years to develop the right policies to beat poverty.
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5 years ago
A life without struggle in South Africa is achievable
In among all the numbers, we have lost sight of dignity, and our value and worth as human beings. So how do we bring dignity back into the equation?
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5 years ago
Is this what a decent life looks like?
Despite a long-running debate on poverty and inequality in South Africa, we haven’t had a robust measure of what it is to live decently. Until now.
Decent standard of living index | Final report
This research presents a Decent Standard of Living (DSL) and a (DSLI) for South Africa. The 2018 study found that a monthly income of around R7,000 per person is associated with a decent standard of living.
Decent standard of living (Infographic)
A crucial link exists between the right to a decent standard of life and the right to dignity, which is guaranteed in Section 10 of the South African Constitution.
A decent living level for South Africa- A report on how possession of socially perceived necessities relates to income
This report attempts to relate incomes in South Africa to a measure of a decent living level.
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7 years ago
Decent Standard of Living
What does a decent life look like? The Decent Standard of Living Project attempts to derive an understanding of what constitutes a broadly acceptable living level that should be used to reflect a basic living level in South Africa.
A decent living level : A pilot of the minimum income standard approach in South Africa
The aim of this pilot study was to ascertain whether South Africans can reach an agreement about how a decent standard of living is defined and the things that constitute a decent standard of living.
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