Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to
democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced …

South Africa is the most economically unequal country in the world. Moreover, research
shows that inequality has only risen since advent of multi‐party democracy in 1994. In this …

A century ago, Thorstein Veblen introduced socially contingent consumption into the
economic literature. This paper complements the scarce empirical literature by testing his …

ABSTRACT [T] here is not one distribution of income but many: income is distributed across
racial groups, income classes, present and future generations, and so on. Moreover, a given …

This study investigates whether trends in the extent and depth of poverty in South Africa over
the past decade have been gendered. We examine whether females are more likely to live …

The aim of this paper was to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa
are significantly higher among those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we …

Using the 2011 South African population census, we provide income and multidimensional
poverty and inequality estimates at the municipal level. We go on to estimate a spatial …

South Africa's history of colonialism and Apartheid contributed to its extreme levels of
inequality. Twenty-five years after the transition to democracy, socio-economic and health …

Public economics is one of the most lively and fascinating fields in economics. There are
theoretical and methodical interconnections to numerous branches of economics as well as …

The “apartheid city” in South Africa stands out as an extreme example of urban social
engineering. Urban segregation was pervasive across the colonial world, some other cities …