The debate about the consequences of economic growth on poverty and welfare was recently rekindled in South Africa by … growth scenario. The main findings are that higher economic growth induces reductions in poverty both in the short and long … announcements that the government would be targeting a sustainable growth rate of 6 percent per annum under the Accelerated and …

African poverty and inequality analyses. In addition to the fact that NIDS is the first national panel study of individuals in …, after imputations, was the preferred variable for deriving the poverty and inequality estimates. This paper examines if the … poverty and inequality estimates are significantly different, using both the single estimate and the aggregate (before and …

, and excluding these households from poverty and inequality analyses would lead to biased results. Hence, sequential … poverty and inequality trends across the three surveys. Finally, income welfare and non-income welfare were compared by …

limited impact on poverty and inequality in South Africa. … is one with great inequality. Moreover, evidence is presented that spending efficiency for social spending is low, thus …

Using alternative data sources on income and poverty with a shorter time lag makes it possible to discern trends that … can inform the policy debate. A strong decline in poverty rates was recorded since 2000. This has since been confirmed by … poverty and social poverty in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University. It first appeared as a publication that …

alternative estimates of the post-transition poverty path. The motivations for using this non-official data source are twofold … Population Census – and a desire to extend analysis of poverty trends beyond 2001. While official data sources are generally … preferred for purposes of poverty analysis, the IES and Census collect data at long (five or ten year) intervals, and additional …

alternative estimates of post-transition poverty and inequality that are consistent with the story that national accounts and … more reliable, given serious deficiencies in both sources of data. Adjusted distributions yield lower levels of poverty and … a stronger decline in poverty during the second half of the period than the figures obtained from the raw AMPS data …

variables) to derive poverty and inequality trends for South Africa since the transition. The most commonly used data sets used … particular year or in more than one year, which in turn makes the comparison of poverty and inequality results across the years … official poverty lines mentioned above) across all the available survey data, in order to explore the poverty and inequality …

system as a means of poverty alleviation, pointing to the importance of economic growth with job creation for sustaining the … explores trends in poverty and income distribution over the post-transition period. To steer clear of an unduly optimistic … conclusion, assumptions are chosen that would tend to show the least decline in poverty. Whilst there were no strong trends in …

such as the rinderpest disease or the Anglo-Boer war added to the numbers of poor whites. Today, poverty is still at the … tradition, and external factors are still amongst the factors said to be the causes of poverty. This paper assesses the … similarities and differences between black poverty today and white poverty a century ago, and suggests possible policy lessons to …