Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Arden Finn, Murray Leibbrandt and Morne Oosthuizen

No wp-2014-127, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This paper aims to tell the story of the evolution of both money-metric and non-money-metric poverty and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa, and to assess the effect of prices on this story.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Inflation; Macroeconomics; Poverty measurement; Prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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