including socioeconomic indicators related to food security robustness and diversification of livelihoods access to quality housing water and sanitation savings school attendance for children etc for example international economists criticised evidence of the economic growth impact of south africa s system of social cash transfers at a conference organised by the government of south africa s committee of inquiry for comprehensive social security held in cape town in towards a sustainable and comprehensive social security system specifically the evidence that cash transfers had a greater impact on reducing liquidity constraints to labour market participation and strengthening risk management barriers to investment in job search contradicted the conventional wisdom that reducing the personal costs of unemployment would undermine incentives to work and create dependency