Stealing from the Poor: State Capture at SASSA

Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM) is the process by which decisions are made and resources allocated to ensure organisational or societal assets continue to deliver, as required. IAM is an evolving field. We discuss this evolution and present our perspectives on the future direction of IAM. IAM was born as a response to the poor state of maintenance of infrastructure, largely due to lack of resources, and emphasizes the need to prioritize maintenance and renewal using risk-based approaches. The demands on IAM have also continued to evolve as asset systems have become more complex, with multifunctionality, adaptative capacity and nature-based infrastructure, all issues that IAM must now consider. These challenges underpin the changing context of Water Infrastructure Asset Management (WIAM) and the opportunity for WIAM to harness new technical developments from other IAM domains. WIAM will need to continue to evolve, responding to these challenges and take advantage of these opportunities through research and application in collaboration with a relevant education and capacity development agenda.

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“The Terror of their Lives”: Irish Jurors' Experiences

Law and History Review ◽

10.1017/s0738248011000319 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 703-761 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Níamh Howlin

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Justice System ◽

Social Economic ◽

Poor State ◽

Public Meetings ◽

The Poor ◽

Jury Service ◽

The World ◽

Jury System

A commentator noted in 1881 that Irishmen regarded jury service as “the greatest burden that can be inflicted upon them … they would be delighted if trial by jury was suspended tomorrow.” He later added, “[o]f course an enormous outcry would be raised about it in the national press, and in public meetings; but jurors … would give anything in the world not to serve … because it is the terror of their lives.” Much has been written about the poor state of the nineteenth-century Irish jury system, and it is certainly true that for various social, economic and political reasons, in comparison with that in England, the Irish system appears to have operated in a way that fell somewhat short of ideal. This article seeks to provide an understanding of the realities facing the jurors themselves, and will examine their experiences of the justice system before, during, and after the trial.

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Paediatric Medicine in India and Bottlenecks of Development in Nurturing Demographic Assets

South Asia Research ◽

10.1177/0262728019861762 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 323-338

Author(s):

Shivangi

Keyword(s):

Child Development ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Institutional Development ◽

The State ◽

Healthy Development ◽

Poor State ◽

The Poor ◽

Paediatric Medicine ◽

Entire Nation ◽

Healthy Growth

This article argues that the poor state of paediatric medicine in India still restrains and often prevents the healthy development of far too many young Indians. Infants as junior-most citizens deserve diligent care, as they have legal entitlements to specialised medical services, ensuring their survival and healthy growth, ultimately for the benefit of the entire nation. The article first traces the somewhat stunted colonial institutional development of paediatric medicine in India. It then proceeds to perform a critical analysis of the continuing harm of negligence concerning the health and upbringing of India’s vulnerable infants, challenging the state to become more committed to integrated child development.

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The brooches in the Pietroasa treasure

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00053357 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 46 (182) ◽

pp. 111-116

Author(s):

David Brown

Keyword(s):

Fourth Century ◽

British Museum ◽

Poor State ◽

The Poor ◽

Gold Plate

The Pietroasa treasure is a late fourth-century hoard of jewellery and gold plate; it is normally associated with the Visigoths, and is thought to have been buried at the time of the advance of the Huns into Europe. The surviving pieces of the treasure were shown in the splendid exhibition of ‘Treasures from Romania’ in the British Museum last year; the objects were briefly described in the exhibition catalogue and many were illustrated, but there were no details of the finding or significance of the hoard, and the visitor was left to speculate on the very battered state of many of the pieces. In fact, when found, the treasure comprised 22 pieces and, by all accounts, all were in excellent condition; the poor state of the twelve survivors is due to an unhappy chain of events.

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Animal remains from the Early Makurian cemetery in el-Zuma (season 2013)

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0010.0067 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol XXIV (1) ◽

pp. 425-430

Author(s):

Urszula Iwaszczuk

Keyword(s):

Poor State ◽

The Poor ◽

Animal Remains ◽

Animal Bones ◽

The Dead ◽

Food Offerings

Excavation in 2013 of two tumuli, T.15 and T.21, making up part of the Early Makurian cemetery at El-Zuma, yielded numerous animal bones among other finds. The total from T.15 was a set of 1404 fragmentary bones belonging (with the exception of 653 that could not be identified due to the poor state of preservation) to cattle and ovicaprids. The remains came from the shaft, the burial chamber and two lateral chambers. The number of bones from T.21 was much smaller, restricted to 78 fragments, coming mostly from the burial chamber. Except for one bird bone and seven unidentified fragments, the remains belonged to an ovicaprid. Marks visible on the bones from both tumuli confirmed that the parts of cattle and ovicaprine carcasses served as food offerings for the dead.

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Paul Kersten. The Bookbinder’s Role in the Development of Decorative Paper

Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia litterarum ◽

10.1515/amnpsc-2017-0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 62 (1-2) ◽

pp. 41-46

Author(s):

Helma Schaefer

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Mass Production ◽

Art Nouveau ◽

Paper Production ◽

Art Deco ◽

Poor State ◽

The Poor ◽

The 19Th Century ◽

The Middle Ages

In her article, the author discusses the merits of the German craft bookbinder Paul Kersten (1865-1943) in the development of modern decorative papers as an expression of artistic individuality in the field of applied arts. From the Middle Ages, decorative paper had been used in decoration and bookbinding. Bookbinding workshops had traditionally made starched marbled paper. The interest of Paul Kersten, coming from a bookbinding family, in these papers had already dated from his youth. During his travels abroad, he was aware of the poor state of the bookbinding craft, which was affected by the mass production of books and book bindings as well as the industrialisation of paper production at the end of the 19th century. Kersten helped to introduce Art Nouveau into the design of German bookbinding and the methods of the modern production of decorative papers. At first, he worked as a manager in German paper manufactures and then as a teacher of bookbinding. His work was later oriented towards Symbolic Expressionism and he also tried to cope with the style of Art Deco.

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The disposable worker (the poor state of the US employment market)

Human Resource Management International Digest ◽

10.1108/hrmid.2010.04418dad.003 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

Keyword(s):

Poor State ◽

The Poor ◽

The Us

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Mexico education figures highlight need for reform

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db216841 ◽

2016 ◽

Keyword(s):

International Student ◽

Student Assessment ◽

The State ◽

School Systems ◽

Content Type ◽

Knowledge And Skills ◽

International Student Assessment ◽

Poor State ◽

The Poor ◽

Equity And Efficiency

Subject The state of Mexican education. Significance The OECD released its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 report on December 6. The triennial study evaluates the quality, equity and efficiency of school systems, and the latest assesses to what extent 15-year-old pupils have the necessary knowledge and skills to participate in modern societies. Impacts The report will trigger mutual accusations of responsibility for the poor state of education between supporters and opponents of reform. The effectiveness of reform will see uneven implementation and outcomes in different states. Consequently, Mexico will perform poorly in the next PISA test, to be published in 2018.

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The Fiscal Contract: States, Taxes, and Public Services

World Politics ◽

10.1353/wp.2006.0015 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 57 (4) ◽

pp. 530-567 ◽

Cited By ~ 119

Author(s):

Jeffrey F. Timmons

Keyword(s):

Property Rights ◽

Public Services ◽

State Autonomy ◽

The Poor ◽

State Capture ◽

The Rich ◽

State Taxes ◽

Using Data ◽

Fiscal Contract

Using data from approximately ninety countries, the author shows that the more a state taxes the rich as a percentage of GDP, the more it protects property rights; and the more it taxes the poor, the more it provides basic public services. There is no evidence that states gouge the rich to benefit the poor or vice versa, contrary to state-capture theories. Nor is there any evidence that taxes and spending are unrelated, contrary to state-autonomy models. Instead, states operate much like fiscal contracts, with groups getting what they pay for.

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RCN condemns the poor state of services in England

Learning Disability Practice ◽

10.7748/ldp.19.3.7.s6 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 7-7

Author(s):

Colin Parish

Keyword(s):

Poor State ◽

The Poor

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