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Poverty, social mobility, and the middle class : the case of South Africa
Schotte, Simone - 2018
The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a...
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Snakes and ladders and loaded dice : poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa, 2008-2017
Zizzamia, Rocco; Schotte, Simone; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2019
over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic element - the risk of falling into (deeper) poverty and the chances of … available National Income Dynamics Study data to provide a thorough and up-to-date analysis of poverty dynamics in South Africa … between 2008 and 2017. This analysis focuses on the correlates of transitions into and out of poverty, and investigates how …
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Essays on categorical inequality, non-linear income dynamics and social mobility in South Africa
Keswell, Malcolm M. - 2003
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One kind of freedom : poverty dynamics in post-apartheid South Africa :
Carter, Michael R.; May, Julian D. - 1999
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One kind of freedom : poverty dynamics in post-apartheid South Africa
Carter, Michael R.; May, Julian D. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 29 (2001) 12, pp. 1987-2006
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A poverty dynamics approach to social stratification : the South African case
Schotte, Simone; Zizzamia, Rocco; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 110 (2018), pp. 88-103
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Structural inequality in the Philippines : oligarchy, (im)mobility and economic transformation
Tuano, Philip Arnold; Cruz, Jerik - In: Journal of Southeast Asian economies 36 (2019) 3, pp. 304-328
risen, the country’s record in terms of generating quality employment and reducing poverty and inequality has been …
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"Inequality is the root of social evil," or maybe not? : two stories about inequality and public policy
Corak, Miles - 2017
Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard & Poor's, is talking about it. But these conversations about what are arguably the most significant changes in the distribution of incomes and earnings since the 1940s are leading...
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Understanding the relationship between inequalities and poverty : a review of dynamic mechanisms
Duque, Magali; McKnight, Abigail - 2019
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On measuring social tensions : with applications to Brazil
Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Kakwani, Nanak - 2017
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