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 Transitions to Adulthood [completed]
KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS)
Legacies of Inequality: Local Communities, Social Capital and the Dynamics of Income Distribution and Poverty.
Life Cycles and Social Security
Poverty and Inequality in Lesotho [completed]
Quality of Life (Land Reform)
Training on Poverty Diagnostics and Monitoring in Namibia
Framework for Poverty Monitoring the the Republic of the Maldives [completed]
South African Social Protection Expenditure and Performance Review
Poverty & Information and Communication Technology Systems in Urban and Rural East-Africa (PICTURE)
AIDS, Demography and Poverty Trends (ADAPT) in an African Population with High AIDS Mortality and Implications for Social Policy
Poverty Reduction, Social Capital and Governance
Budgeting for a Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
Community-based Learning, ICT and Quality-of-life (CLIQ): A participatory approach to assessing the impact of ICT access.
Biographical sketch: Julian May is a Professor, NRF South African Research Chair in Applied Poverty Assessment. Between 1994 and 1998, he led the South African Participatory Poverty Assessment funded by the World Bank and the Poverty and Inequality Report commissioned by the Office of the Deputy President of South Africa. He has also worked with a number of South African government departments in the development of poverty reduction policy options and systems for monitoring the impact of policy, including social security and land reform. Internationally, he has worked on an evaluation of the World Bank’s social fund program in Jamaica, Nicaragua, Zambia and Malawi, bio-diversity studies in Mozambique and Namibia, poverty reduction strategy in Lesotho, poverty monitoring in Mauritius, Maldives, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, and the Information & Communication Technology/poverty nexus in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. In 1999, he was appointed by the UNDP to an evaluation team to examine the impact of their $20 million Poverty Strategy Initiative, and undertook research in Uganda, Zambia, Lesotho and Maldives. He is the principal research for the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Survey (KIDS), a ten year quantitative and qualitative panel study of poverty dynamics in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Currently he is the co-researcher on an ESRC/DFID funded project: Aids, Demographic and Poverty Trends (ADAPT) being undertaken in collaboration with Prof Ian Timæus of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has edited 3 books, published over 55 papers in books and academic journals, and produced more than 120 working papers, research reports and other publications. He is a member of the South African Statistics Council, and an Associate Researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC and at the Department of Social Policy, Oxford University. In 2002, he was a visiting Professor at the Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bergen. His research interests are poverty and inequality, population change, agrarian reform, and impact assessment methodologies. Community Activities: South Africa Statistics Council The Statistics Council is an advisory body to Statistics South Africa and the Minister of Finance. The Council comments on Stats SA’s annual workplan, provides specific guidance on major data gathering activities, and pronounces on the quality of the Census. Professor May has been a member of the Council since 1994 and chairs the committee on Poverty and Inequality. National Income Dynamics Survey The National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS) is a panel household survey for South Africa that will be undertaken from 2008. Professor May serves on the Advisory Committee which reports to the Office of the President, and on the Technical Committee that advises the research team currently based at UCT. He also participates in a task team developing the module in the questionnaire on subsistence agriculture. Applied Population Studies Training and Research Applied Population Studies Training and Research APSTAR is a training program in population studies for government officials. The program is sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund and the National Department of Social Development. Approximately 40 government officials are trained each year. The cost of his time on this activity is covered through a UKZN contract with UNFPA. UNESCO policy paper on human rights and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Professor May is a member of and Expert Group on Poverty Reduction and the co-author on a policy paper being prepared for UNESCO on their intervention in the PRSPs being undertaken in 149 developing countries. His collaborator is Prof. Else Øyen of the University of Bergen, Norway. Strengthening Analytical Capacity and Evidence Based Decision Making Strengthening Analytical Capacity and Evidence Based Decision-Making (SACED) This is a multi-million Pound grant made by the UK Department of International Development to the South African Department of Social Development. Professor May is running four projects within this program and serves on the management committee. Two projects are concerned with the impact of the AIDS epidemic on social policy, one with the Child Support Grant and one with training in social policy more broadly. The cost of his time on this activity is covered through a UKZN contract with DFID. International Council for Science: Regional Office for Africa Professor May participated in the preparation of a response to comments received from a Consultative Forum, providing sections on gender, poverty and the social determinants of health. CPRC Centre Advisory and Review Group Professor May has served on the Chronic Poverty Research Centre’s Advisory Group. This group provides guidance to CPRC’s global initiative on data collection, analysis and activism. Guest lectures and other inputs:
Publications: May, J. (2008) Conceptualising and measuring poverty in the SADC region. Kirsten, J*, May J, Hendriks S*, Lyne M, Machethe* and Punt C (2007) Country case studies: South Africa. Beyond Food Production: The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction. Bresciani F and Valdés A (eds), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 188-222. Kirsten, J., May, J., Hendiks, S., Lyne, M., Machethe, CL. & Punt, C. (2007). South Africa, in Bresciani, F., and Valdés, A., (eds.) Beyond Food Production, The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction, FAO and Edward Elgar, 243-312. Agüero, J, Carter, M R & May, J, 2007. Poverty and Inequality in the First Decade of South Africa’s Democracy: Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, Journal of African Economies, 16(5): 782-812. May, J, Agüero, J, Carter, M R & Timæus, I., 2007. The KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) 3rd wave: methods, first findings and an agenda for future research, Development Southern Africa, 24(5): 629-648. Carter, M R, May, J, Agüero, J, & Ravindranath, S (2007). The Economic Impact of Severe Illness and Prime Age Mortality: Evidence from Panel Data from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, AIDS, 21: S67-S73. Kirsten, J, May, J, Hendiks, S, Lyne, M, Machethe, C L & Punt, C (2007). South Africa, in Bresciani, F., and Valdés, A., (eds.) Beyond Food Production: The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction, FAO and Edward Elgar, Chetleham, 243-312. Khandlhela, M. & May, J.(2006). A Socio-economic Assessment of the Impact of the 2000 Floods on two Communities of the Limpopo Province, South Africa, Natural Hazards, 39(2): 275-287. May J and Meth C (2007) Dualism or underdevelopment in South Africa: what does a quantitative assessment of poverty, inequality and employment reveal? Development Southern Africa, 24(2), 271-287. May, J. & Meth, C. (2007). Dualism and Data: What does a Quantitative Assessment of Poverty, Inequality and Employment Reveal? Development Southern Africa, 24(2): 271-288. Adato, M. Carter, M.R. and May, J. (2006). Exploring poverty traps and social exclusion in South Africa, using qualitative and quantitative data. Journal of Development Studies, 42(2) February, 2006. p. 226-247. May, J. (2006) Defining poverty: the debate continues. South African Labour Bulletin, 30 (1), March/April, 53-55. May, J.(2006). Constructing the social policy agenda: conceptual debates around poverty and inequality. In: Padayachee, V. (ed) The Development decade: Economic and social change in South Africa 1994-2004, Cape Town: HSRC Press, p.143-159. May J (2006) Poverty, asset accumulation and shocks in South Africa: Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal. In: Poverty and Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Bhorat H and Kanbur R (eds), Cape Town: HSRC Press, 321-350. May, J., (2006). Poverty Trends and the Poverty Debate. South African Labour Bulletin, 30(1): 53-55. May J and Roberts B (2005) Poverty diagnostics using poor data: strengthening the evidence base for pro-poor policy making in Lesotho. Social Indicators Research, 74, p477-510. May, J. and Lohohla, P. (2005) Counting the costs of a twenty-first century census: South Africa's Census 2001. Development Southern Africa, 22(2), 215-232. May J and Hunter N (2005) Poverty, inequality and the social wage: Balancing the books in post-apartheid South Africa? Democratising Development. The Politics of Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa. P Jones and K Stokke (eds), Koninklijke Brill NV, The Netherlands, p101-126. May J., Carter M. and Padayachee V. (2004) Is poverty and inequality leading to poor growth? South African Labour Bulletin, 28(2),
p18-20. Kaufman, C. E., Clark S., Manzini N and May J. (2004 Communities, opportunities and adolescents’ sexual behaviour in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Studies in Family Planning, 35(4),
p261-274. Padayachee, V. May, J. and M. Carter (2004). Economic reform, markets and poverty reduction in post-apartheid South Africa. South African Labour Bulletin, 28(2), April. Hunter N and May J (2003) ‘Growing old gracefully?’ Ageing in post-apartheid South Africa. Fourth African Population Studies Conference – Population and Poverty in Africa: Facing the 21st Century challenges, Tunis, Tunisia. Hunter, Nina, Julian May and Vishnu Padayachee (2003) Lessons for PRSP from Poverty Reduction Strategies in South Africa. Working Paper No. 39. Hunter, N. and May, J. (2003) Poverty, Shocks and School May, J., Roberts, B., Moqasa, G. and Woolard, I (2002) Poverty and Inequality in Lesotho. Working Paper No. 36. May, J., Roberts, B., Krige, D., Mochebelele, M. and Mokitimi, N. (2001) Towards a Poverty Monitoring System in Lesotho. Research Report No. 44. Van De Ruit, C., May, J. and Roberts, B. (2001). A Poverty Assessment of the Small Enterprise Foundation on Behalf of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest. Research Report No. 39. Deininger, K. and May, J. (2000) Is There Scope for Growth with Equity? The Case of Land Reform in South Africa. Working Paper No. 29. May, J., Carter, M., Haddad, L. and Maluccio, J. (1999) KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS) 1993-1998: A Longitudinal Household Data Set for South African Policy Analysis. Working Paper No. 21. May, J. et al. (1998) Experience and perceptions of poverty in South Africa. Durban: Praxis Publishing. Poverty and Inequality
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