This paper offers evidence on the sensitivity of child poverty in South Africa to changes in the Adult Equivalence Scale (AES) and updates the child poverty profile based on the Income and Expenditure Survey 2005/06. Setting the poverty line at the 40th percentile of households calculated with...

This article considers the evolution of ideas in development theory on the role of the state in development in an attempt to draw inferences for South Africa. It offers a critique of the neoliberal view and presents the revisionists' insights on why entrepreneurial action, institutional building...