A detailed database has been developed on job creation projects in Western Cape Province containing information on their performance in generating employment, building infrastructure and local institutional capacity, and provision of training. This has been complemented by the construction of data sets on poverty indicators. In collaboration with researchers in Oxford, Amsterdam, and Zimbabwe, the research team examined the impact of poverty reducing and poverty preventing policies on households resettled on formerly White commercial farms after Independence in Zimbabwe. A model was constructed that links measures of household welfare to access to improved health care, agricultural extension, and drought relief. The model assessed the impact of these on both the level and change in welfare across households, over time and on a regional basis.
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