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 …

role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …

Manufacturing has traditionally been regarded in the development literature as having special growth-pulling or growth … been growing. This study focuses on the Hirschmanian channels through which sectoral growth can lead or support aggregate … economic growth, using input-output tables to investigate intersectoral linkages in the South African economy. Manufacturing is …

reductions. The mode for recycling carbon tax revenues strongly influences distributional outcomes, with tradeoffs between growth …

While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is …

growth and the geostrategical actions of the regional powers. As the conception of and debates on regional powers have been …

members pulls many households supporting them into poverty. We also show that the household formation responses draw some …

It is often argued that multi-dimensional measures of well-being and poverty—such as those based on the capability …-provincial ranking of poverty in South Africa in 1995-6. It turns out that this ranking is fairly robust, and that some important policy …-relevant results about the distinction between ‘income’/‘expenditure’ and ‘human’ poverty for the South African context are reinforced …

Schumepterian growth theory stresses the role of structural change in long run growth. Countries which increase the … less dynamic growth performance since the 1980s. …