Minimum wage policy supported by a strong social policy is an efficient mechanism against poverty and income erosion of … income inequality. It can also help to prevent a general decline in the level of nominal wages and deflationary developments …

In this paper, we compare subjective and money-metric measures of poverty in South Africa using data collected in the … considerable overlap between per capita expenditure measures of poverty status and subjective poverty status among households …. However, we also identify a number of significant characteristics which distinguish households where poverty measures do not …

While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is … exposure to the program. -- land reform ; poverty ; impact evaluation …

only slightly and this is attributed to sluggish labour market growth and low quality of education. We find that the middle …