subtle insights into the relationships between gender and poverty. …

relationship between poverty, inequality and growth. The paper also investigates patterns of and trends in poverty and income …This paper describes and analyses current poverty and income distribution in South Africa, with a central concern the … redistribution. Wage inequality, deeply rooted in South Africa’s history, plays a central role in overall income distribution, and …

likely effects on poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. While poverty has declined, inequality has remained relatively … high and stable over nearly four decades. In this paper, for the first time, we examine poverty and inequality in a dynamic …, which helps mitigate persistent high inequality. We offer a range of estimates of transition probabilities, indicating that …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …

We apply a standard tax-and-benefit-incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that are … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that are … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …. The impact of transfers on inequality and poverty reduction could be higher if spending on direct cash transfers that are … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …

The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among … those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans … show that the racial gap in poverty and deprivation can be attributed to the cumulative disadvantaged characteristics of …

The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among … those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans … show that the racial gap in poverty and deprivation can be attributed to the cumulative disadvantaged characteristics of …