This country study evaluates the experience of the South African economy with respect to growth, poverty and inequality …

households and individuals in post-apartheid South Africa. Second, while the outcomes on unemployment, poverty and inequality are … themselves negatively affected by increasing inequality, poverty and unemployment …This is an overview of poverty and well-being in the first decade of post-apartheid South Africa. It is an introduction …

from Statistics South Africa to calculate inflation rates for expenditure deciles for the period 1998 to 2006. As a result …

consumption-based measures of income has shown that, depending on the data sources, household income poverty in South Africa … standard poverty measures are applied to our derived indices, we find that total household welfare increased between 1993 and …

explores trends in poverty and income distribution over the post-transition period. To steer clear of an unduly optimistic … conclusion, assumptions are chosen that would tend to show the least decline in poverty. Whilst there were no strong trends in … poverty for the period 1995 to 2000, both data series show a considerable decline in poverty after 2000, particularly in the …

economic impact.Yet if COVID-19 exacerbated and exposed the state’s poverty problems, it was not the cause of them. Even before … domestic product grew 3.4 percent in 2019, and while its unemployment rate was slightly above the national average, it still …

This paper argues that the link between poverty and drug-related crime might be spurious. We take an empirical approach … variables in order to estimate the contribution of poverty to crime. Secondly, data is analysed using an ARDL ECM. The quarterly … sample data for our estimation is for the period 1995-2016. We found a strong association between crime and poverty both in …