Hunger in South Africa during 2020: Results from Wave 2 of NIDS-CRAM

Grace Bridgman (), Servaas van der Berg () and Leila Patel ()
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Grace Bridgman: Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University
Leila Patel: Department of Economics, University of Johannesburg

No 25/2020, Working Papers from Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The first wave of the National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS- CRAM) provided strong evidence that there had been a drastic increase in both adult and child hunger in the survey months, May and June 2020, and that almost half of all households had on occasion run out of money for food during April 2020. Comparisons with information from earlier surveys (the annual General Household Survey from 2002 to 2018) showed that much of the improvements since 2000 in adult and child hunger and food security due to the expansion of the Child Support Grant had been almost entirely reversed by the hard lockdown and the coronavirus pandemic. The second wave of NIDS-CRAM shows improvement in all three measures, but that hunger and food insecurity remain disturbingly high.

Keywords: Covid19; child welfare; hunger; social grants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 I31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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