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Hunger in South Africa during 2020 : results from wave 2 of NIDS-CRAM

Bridgman, Grace; Berg, Servaas van der; Patel, Leila - 2020

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Household resource flows and food poverty during South Africa's lockdown : short-term policy implications for three channels of social protection

Wills, Gabrielle; Berg, Servaas van der; Patel, Leila; … - 2020

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The impact of the Coronavirus and lockdown on children’s welfare in South Africa : evidence from NIDS-CRAM wave 1

Berg, Servaas van der; Zuze, Linda; Bridgman, Grace - 2020

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The long walk : considering the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of deprivation two decades after the fall of apartheid

Burger, Ronelle; Berg, Servaas van der; Walt, Sarel van der - 2015

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 …

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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country

Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015

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

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Post-Apartheid South Africa : poverty and distribution trends in an era of globalization

Berg, Servaas van der (contributor); … - 2007

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Higher education access and outcomes for the 2008 South African national matric cohort

Broekhuizen, Hendrik van; Berg, Servaas van der; … - 2016

This study uses a unique dataset to investigate university access, throughput, and dropout for the 2008 South African national matric cohort. The findings show that university access in South Africa is limited, even among learners who perform relatively well in matric. In addition, those who do...

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The unintended consequences of education policies on South African participation and unemployment

Burger, Rulof; Berg, Servaas van der; Fintel, Dieter von - 2013

In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the large number of over-age learners in the school system: schools were no longer allowed to accept students who were more than two years older than the correct grade-age and students...

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How effective are poor schools? : poverty and educational outcomes in South Africa

Berg, Servaas van der (contributor) - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

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Social safety nets : [Stellenbosch Economic Project]

Coetzer, G. J. (ed.); Kinghorn, Johann (contributor); … - 1992

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