Launched in 2018, the Decent Standard of Living (DSL) research is the result of a multi-year study by three research organisations, Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, Southern Africa Social Policy Research Institute and the Labour Research Service.

The objective of the fourth Colloquium was to unpack how the DSL advances policy – aligned thinking on how to reduce development– and service– deficits and to contribute to a more optimal sequential policy development to improve the lives of the majority of South Africans who statistically fall below articulated measures of well-being and poverty in survey data.

A report of the proceedings of the 4th Decent Standard of Living (DSL) Colloquium and the 2019 research and publications on expanding a DSL in South Africa | 2019 Isobel Frye

 

RELATED RESOURCES

Invitation to the 4th Colloquium – 31 October 2019

Towards a decent life for all – Decent Standard of Living Index (Final Report)

Creating an inclusive society in South Africa – Address by Dr Wiseman Magasela to the 4th DSL colloquium

Decent Standard of Living: Message of support from UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Dr Philip Alston