Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty …-loss-induced poverty: a headcount ratio increase at the upper-bound poverty line of 5.2 percentage points (3.1 million people/13 per cent …

of fiscal policy on income redistribution, and poverty in South Africa. We find, in accordance with previous research …, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …

accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food … poverty reduction in still disadvantaged regions of Asia will need to be different as well. …

needed. -- biofuels ; economic development ; food security ; poverty ; Africa …

The democratic government in South Africa has developed a system of social grants to combat the high levels of poverty … poverty. On the other hand income inequality has remained stubbornly high in post-apartheid South Africa and the role of these … that the social assistance awarded to the elderly has contributed dramatically to the decline in poverty but has not …