The transition from apartheid: Social spending shifts preceded political reform

Servaas van der Berg ()

Economic History of Developing Regions, 2014, vol. 29, issue 2, 234-244

Abstract: Given the nature of apartheid, social spending incidence figures were collected by race for many decades. An analysis of these figures shows an important structural break in racial patterns of social spending in the mid-1970s, with a major shift towards the black population. This left the post-apartheid government with much of the social spending shifts already accomplished, and relatively limited fiscal leeway. Nevertheless, it continued these shifts, with the result that South African social spending is now extremely well targeted.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2014.955277

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