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Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South Africa : (re-)examining the links using national panel survey data

Otterbach, Steffen; Rogan, Michael - 2017

. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living …

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The long walk : considering the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of deprivation two decades after the fall of apartheid

Burger, Ronelle; Berg, Servaas van der; Walt, Sarel van der - 2015

This study examines the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of poverty and deprivation in South Africa to assess the … services. While there has been previous studies tracking poverty trends over segments of the post-apartheid period, no previous … the Total Fuzzy and Relative approach proposed by Cheli and Lemmi (1995) to derive a poverty index with nine dimensions of …

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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000

members pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some …

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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country

Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015

only slightly and this is attributed to sluggish labour market growth and low quality of education. We find that the middle …

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Determinants of income mobility and household poverty dynamics in South Africa

Woolard, Ingrid (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Small-scale farming and food security : the enabling role of cash transfers in South Africa's former homelands

Fintel, Dieter von; Pienaar, Louw - 2016

Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point …

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The economic impact of depression treatment in India

Angelucci, Manuela; Bennett, Daniel - 2021

through which depression may perpetuate poverty. …

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Depression, pharmacotherapy, and the demand for a novel health product

Angelucci, Manuela; Bennett, Daniel - 2022

Depression, a common and serious illness that is more prevalent among the poor, may limit the demand for health products and other beneficial technologies. To investigate, we evaluate the impact of depression treatment on the demand for a novel health product, hand sanitizer, in India. We...

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The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...

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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

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