Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty …-loss-induced poverty: a headcount ratio increase at the upper-bound poverty line of 5.2 percentage points (3.1 million people/13 per cent …

We use a fiscal incidence model based on the South African 2014/15 Living Conditions Survey to simulate the poverty … COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant upon its expiry and closing the extreme (food poverty line) poverty gap. Our key … findings are that the introduction of a household-targeted family poverty grant is theoretically able to reduce extreme poverty …

of fiscal policy on income redistribution, and poverty in South Africa. We find, in accordance with previous research …, that direct taxes and cash transfers are overall progressive and reduce inequality and poverty. Our disaggregated analyses …

among low and even middle income countries. It helps mitigate income poverty and inequality, and has been shown to have a …. This paper uses the National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS) to derive the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and … Correlation Sensitive Poverty Index (CSPI) for South Africa, and then estimate the impact that social assistance grants have on …

-apartheid migrant networks seek to ameliorate poverty and manage their vulnerability. It argues that the ways in which people make … that drive chronic poverty. Reducing structural poverty in South Africa requires measures that address the underlying …

This paper considers the dynamics of informal social protection in the context of chronic poverty and vulnerability in … reproductive labour. The arrangements help the poor to survive, alleviate poverty and reduce vulnerability by allowing costs and …