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

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 …

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

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

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

This paper measures the extent to which South African economic growth is an engine of growth in sub-Saharan Africa …. Results based on panel data estimation for 47 African countries over four decades suggest that South African growth has a … substantial positive impact on growth in the rest of Africa, even after controlling for other growth determinants. The estimates …

This paper provides estimates of potential output growth in post-apartheid South Africa using both time trend … techniques and a production function approach which indicates a potential growth rate of around 3 percent. The implied output gap … macroeconomic policy. Growth accounting and regression analysis suggest that an increase in trend GDP growth after the end of …

The purpose of this paper is to examine factors that have constrained South Africa''s growth since the end of apartheid … study finds that sluggish investment has undermined growth since 1996 and that the underinvestment is in part explained by … growth in South Africa …