Browsing by Author "Burger, Ronelle"

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    Education and Socio-Economic Differentials: A Study of School Performance in the Western Cape
    (2003-03) van der Berg, Servaas; Burger, Ronelle
    Not surprisingly, the education system is widely perceived to be the major tool to overcome human capital and labour market inequalities in South Africa. This paper asks how well the education system accomplishes this goal. The first part of the paper examines human capital differentials between races and provides evidence of persistent race-based educational attainment and quality differentials.
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    Emergent Black Affluence and Social Mobility in Post-Apartheid South Africa
    (2004-11) Burger, Rulof; Burger, Ronelle; van der Berg, Servaas
    Firstly, the paper at tempts to identify the features that distinguish the affluent and specifically the black affluent from the rest of the population with a descriptive analysis. The paper investigates how affluence predictors vary between different race groups. It shows a dramatic increase in black affluence.
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    Have Pro-Poor Health Policies Improves the Targeting of Spending and the Effective Delivery of Health Care in South Africa?
    (2007-06) Burger, Ronelle; Grobler, Christelle
    Since 1994 there have been a number of radical changes in the public health care system in South Africa. Budgets have been reallocated, decision making was decentralised, the clinic network was expanded and user fees for primary health care were abolished.
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    Trends in Poverty and Inequality Since the Political Transition
    (2006-03) van der Berg, Servaas; Burger, Ronelle; Burger, Rulof; Louw, Megan; Yu, Derek
    Using a constructed data series and another data series based on the All Media and Products surveys (AMPS), this paper explores trends in poverty and income distribution over the post-transition period. To steer clear of an unduly optimistic conclusion, assumptions are chosen that would tend to show the least decline in poverty.