This paper presents an alternative approach to urban development which emphasizes broad based citizen participation in identifying neighbourhood needs and skills as the basis for neighbourhood based development. Process and results of a survey of 444 urban households in Schenectady, New York,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically report the findings on the relationship between financial sector development, economic growth and of millennium development goals (MDGs) for poverty reduction, education and health development in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose the application of Gini, Theil and concentration indices for measuring inequality in water usage. Design/methodology/approach Gini coefficients and Theil indices have been used to estimate the overall inequality in domestic water use in a sample of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the causal relationship between research publications and economic growth – using time-series data from South Africa. The paper attempts to answer two critical questions: is there a long-run relationship between research publications and...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse the relevance of directly targeted poverty reduction programmes in Muslim countries by means of conditional cash transfers (CCTs). The paper analyses the best practices and lessons learnt to date and explores the practical issues to...