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 …

limited impact on poverty and inequality in South Africa. …

distribution during this period of low GDP growth. As a result, poverty, especially extreme poverty, increased. Inequality also … experienced healthy consumption growth, such as the Coloureds, the rate of poverty reduction was low because the distributional …

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 …. Focusing on the dynamics of poverty, we distinguish between short- and long-term poor and between chronic and transient poverty …

poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either … detail the properties of inequality reduction and pro-poorness, using the Watts poverty index and Gini inequality index, when …

The aim of this study is to give a broad picture of the income distribution and the level of inequality and poverty in … distribution of income, with high levels of inequality associated with high poverty rates. These main findings are not influenced …

When comparing poverty across distributions, an analyst must select a poverty line to identify the poor, an equivalence … scale to compare individuals from households of different compositions and sizes, and a poverty index to aggregate … individual deprivation into an index of total poverty. A different choice of poverty line, poverty index or equivalent scale can …

high inequality in income distribution and to assess the impact of different social policies dealing with poverty … and poverty. As an example, we conduct an exercises to evaluate two types of policies used to alleviate poverty: one …