Foreword / by K. Sivaramakrishnan -- Gold and the household -- Gold and cash -- Family mines and small-scale mining -- Rebusque on the precarious periphery -- Simulated extraction and gold based-money laundering -- Speculative projects and multinational mines -- Conclusion. Life after the gold rush.

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One explanation for the increasing prevalence of stunting in South Africa over the past 15 years while other development indicators have improved is that Big Food retail chains have been contributing to a low quality diet across the country, particularly in poor urban households. We thus use...

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