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quarter of a century after apartheid ended, South Africa remained one of the most unequal countries in the world, by class, race and gender. Inequality emerged in unusually stark differences in household incomes; asset ownership, including both concentrated business ownership and household resources; access to quality education, which still largely reflected family wealth and race; and ...
Sep 16, 2019 · We provide an overview of the latest statistics on poverty and inequality in light of overarching economic policies, and the socioeconomic guarantees of the Constitution. We argue that South Africa’s inability to meaningfully address the high levels of inequality is due to insufficient attention to the way power reproduces inequality.
- David Francis, Edward Webster
- 2019
Sep 16, 2019 · Abstract. South Africa is a paradox; on the one hand, it is one of the most unequal countries in the world. Half of all South Africans continue to live in poverty, economic growth has stagnated ...
South Africa has made progress in reducing poverty over the past two decades, but high inequality acts as a brake on poverty reduction, and poverty rates remain high.
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Jan 20, 2020 · Yet inequality remains one of South Africa’s most severe socio-economic challenges, and one which has persisted in the three decades of the post-apartheid era. It has the greatest inequality of income in the world (Sulla &Zikhali 2018 ), and extremely high inequality in wealth (Orthofer 2016 ). While economic inequality attracts consistent ...
- David Francis, Edward Webster
- 2019
Nov 2, 2019 · Inequality has remained one of South Africa's most serious socioeconomic issues in the three decades after apartheid's demise. It has the highest wealth inequality and the highest income ...
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D. Wealth inequality is very high, even higher than income inequality 51 E. Low intergenerational mobility is an obstacle to inequality reduction 53 F. South Africa lags its peers on inclusiveness of consumption growth 56 i. Incidence of growth 56 G. Inequality slows down poverty reduction 58 CHAPTER 4: DRIVERS OF POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN ...
