dynamics of the persistence of poverty in the context of continued and relatively sustained economic development and growth … key policy responses developed to address poverty and inequality after the transition to democratic rule, and a sketch of …

This paper explores the challenge of understanding chronic and structural poverty in South Africa, and questions the … dominance of the econometric imaginary in present-day development and poverty studies. It argues that measurement …-based, econometric approaches to chronic poverty are dependent upon mystifying narratives about the nature of poverty and how it can be …

Ten years after liberation, the persistence of poverty is one of the most important and urgent questions facing South … Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in the work of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre …, situates it within the broader literature on poverty in South Africa, and considers some emergent challenges. Though PLAAS …

Since 2003, South African policy discourse about persistent poverty has been dominated by the notion that poor people …

incorporation and social exclusion (AISE) underpin chronic poverty. In particular, AISE research draws attention to the causal … processes that lead poverty to persist, and to the politics and political economy of these processes and associated … relationships over time. Specific dimensions of AISE are explored in relation to chronic poverty – namely political, economic, socio …