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Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little … attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This … paper aims to tell the story of the evolution of both money-metric and non-money-metric poverty and inequality in post …
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of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and …
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significantly reduce poverty and inequality in settings in which no means-tested old-age pensions exist (such as Ghana and Tanzania …
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This paper examines the extent and determinants of structural poverty dynamics in South Africa, focusing on the socio … complex processes, livelihood strategies, and asset dynamics that condition movements int o and out of structural poverty …
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over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic element - the risk of falling into (deeper) poverty and the chances of … available National Income Dynamics Study data to provide a thorough and up-to-date analysis of poverty dynamics in South Africa … between 2008 and 2017. This analysis focuses on the correlates of transitions into and out of poverty, and investigates how …
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The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …
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In this paper, we compare subjective and money-metric measures of poverty in South Africa using data collected in the … considerable overlap between per capita expenditure measures of poverty status and subjective poverty status among households …. However, we also identify a number of significant characteristics which distinguish households where poverty measures do not …
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to impute missing and interval-censored values in the 2000 and 2006 Labour Force Surveys, and compares poverty estimates … obtained under several different methods of reconciling coarsened earnings data. Estimates of poverty amongst the employed are … data ; multiple imputation ; poverty ; wage distribution ; working poor …
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The first democratic elections in 1994 brought about the promise for equal opportunity and an overall improvement of living standards for the majority of the South African population. However, 20 years after the democratization of South Africa, levels of inequality remain stubbornly high. The...
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In this paper we study the effects of various tax schedule discontinuities on the behavior of small firms using high-quality and population-wide tax register data from South Africa. We use the bunching method to analyse how these discontinuities affect the firm-size distribution. We first...
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