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Ethnic diversity and financial inclusion in post-apartheid South Africa

Koomson, Isaac; Danquah, Michael; Martey, Edward - 2023

The ethnic diversity-financial inclusion nexus remains one of the least explored topics in the literature despite global attempts to promote cultural mixing due to its socioeconomic benefits. We contribute to the literature by examining the link between ethnic diversity and financial inclusion...

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Poverty and ethnicity among black South Africans

Gradín, Carlos - 2014

This paper investigates inequalities across the major black ethnic groups in South Africa, accounting for 80 per cent of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and the Zulu with respect to the Sotho/Tswana. We also show...

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South Africa's emerging black middle class : a harbinger of political change?

Mattes, Robert - 2014

South Africa has seen a significant increase in the size of the black middle class in the post-apartheid period, but the attitudinal consequences of indicators of the middle class, as of 2011, are inconsistent and modest in size. While members of the middle class are no more likely to hold...

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Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa's racial wage gap

Burger, Rulof; Jafta, Rachel; Fintel, Dieter von - 2016

Racial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation cemented these disparities by institutionalizing white job reservation and many other unfair practices. While racial wage gaps started to decline towards the end of apartheid, they...

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"Delangokubona" and the distribution of rents and opportunity : an exploration of tensions over race-based policies of redress and redistribution in South Africa

Cawe, Ayabonga - 2022

society as unequal as South Africa. The history of racial capitalism, racebased exclusion from economic participation, and an …

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Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after apartheid

Gradín, Carlos - 2017

sustained or significant desegregation. Occupations remain highly segmented by race, with blacks disproportionally holding low … distribution are related to blacks' characteristics, especially their lower educational achievement, a gap that has been reduced … over time. Segregation and stratification, however, remain when blacks and whites with similar characteristics are compared. …

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Ethnic fragmentation, public good provision, and inequality in India, 1988 - 2012

Chadha, Nishant; Nandwani, Bharti - 2016

Using data from various rounds of the nationally representative NSSO survey between 1988 and 2012, we first construct national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in inequality in India but only since 2004. We also...

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Competing cleavages in sub-Saharan Africa? : how economic distance affects ethnic bloc politics

Conroy-Krutz, Jeffrey - 2016

Does economic standing cross-cut ethnicity in African electoral politics? In many countries in the region, ethnicity appears to be a major consideration in individuals' political decision-making. However, there is significant variation in the extent to which coethnics support parties en bloc;...

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The conceptualization and measurement of ethnic and religious divisions : categorical, temporal, and spatial dimensions with evidence from Mindanao, the Philippines

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; McDoom, Omar - 2015

A large body of recent quantitative work on the 'diversity detriment' hypothesis finds that ethno-religious diversity is linked with a host of societal ills, implying in turn a strong challenge to multiculturalist theory and policies. Given the stakes, the appropriate conceptualization and...

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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia : further evidence of a subnational 'diversity dividend'

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leiderer, Stefan; … - 2014

The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...

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