This is an overview of poverty and well-being in the first decade of post-apartheid South Africa. It is an introduction … households and individuals in post-apartheid South Africa. Second, while the outcomes on unemployment, poverty and inequality are … for rapid and sustained economic growth, without which poverty and well-being cannot be addressed in the long run, are …

around a constant income distribution to illustrate why standard measures of poverty, built on the intuitions of unchanging …

analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …