The Wellbeing Research Group at the HSRC, comprising a team of 8 junior and 11 senior scholars spent six months reviewing how wellbeing is spoken about and measured. They looked at which policies and interventions have ...

Mapping the landscape of STEM promotion by means of Olympiads and competitions is an important step towards the expansion of such interventions. This report provides such a mapping, based on the responses of thirteen ...

City-region economies is a new HSRC initiative aimed at understanding the process of inclusive growth in cities and regions, and the factors and forces inhibiting shared and enduring prosperity. We are also interested in ...

More than two decades after 1994, challenges in achieving universal literacy and education in South Africa remain. The Local Government Sector Education and Training Authority commissioned the HSRC to assess challenges in ...

Bamboo is a renewable resource that has many economic and environmental benefits. Because of its potential contribution to sustainable development, private companies and governments have begun to promote its commercialisation ...

As mortality rates decline, life expectancy increases, and populations age, non-fatal outcomes of diseases and injuries are becoming a larger component of the global burden of disease. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, ...

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) provides a comprehensive assessment of risk factor exposure and attributable burden of disease. By providing estimates over a long time series, ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most threatening diseases and Nigeria has one of the world???s largest burdens. This study performed high-throughput spoligotyping directly on sputum smears to describe the Mycobacterium ...