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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

In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...

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Measuring energy poverty in South Africa based on household required energy consumption

Ye, Yuxiang; Koch, Steven F. - In: Energy economics 103 (2021), pp. 1-13

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Inequality and fiscal redistribution in middle income countries : Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa

Lustig, Nora - In: Journal of globalization and development 7 (2016) 1, pp. 17-60

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A note on estimating income inequality across countries using PPP exchange rates

Ghosh, Jayati - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 29 (2018) 1, pp. 24-37

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International income poverty measurement : which way now?

Klasen, Stephan; Krivobokova, Tatyana; Greb, Friederike; … - 2015

national currencies using either the 2005 or 2011 level; in the medium term, we argue for global poverty measurement based on … internationally coordinated national poverty measurement. … poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …

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From deprivation to distribution : is global poverty becoming a matter of national inequality?

Sumner, Andrew - 2012

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What do national poverty lines tell us about global poverty?

Gentilini, Ugo; Sumner, Andrew - 2012

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Accounting for private health care expenses in measures of nations' redistributive effort

Baird, Katherine - 2018

-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households’ medical expenses. We find that …

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Inequality : measurement, trends, impacts and policies

Addison, Tony; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 63 (2017) 4, pp. 603-607

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The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers : Evidence From Eight Developing Countries

Inchauste, Gabriela - 2017

inequality, poverty, and different economic groups. The approach relies on comprehensive fiscal incidence analysis, which … measures the contribution of each individual intervention to poverty and inequality reduction as well as the combined impact of …

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