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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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This report documents the progress South Africa has made in reducing poverty and inequality since the end of apartheid …. Second, although South Africa has made progress in reducing poverty since 1994, the trajectory of poverty reduction was … intergenerational mobility act as a brake on poverty reduction and as a result poverty is high for an upper middle-income country …
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have remained sluggish. Also, poverty and unemployment have risen and become increasingly concentrated in rural areas. This …-skilled workers, thereby reducing income inequality and poverty. The author also fined that South Africa's own policies are biased … sectors will be outweighed by job creation in agriculture, such that overall employment rises and poverty falls. Overall, the …
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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 …
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The purpose of the paper is to identify areas in South Africa where social-economic disparity exists using 2011 census data. Different indices are used to measure spatial disparity with the aim of finding the most appropriate approach for measuring disparities under different circumstances. The...
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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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