What happened to multidimensional poverty in South Africa between 1993 and 2010?

 

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dc.creator Finn, Arden
dc.creator Leibbrandt, Murray
dc.creator Woolard, Ingrid
dc.date 2013-08-22T14:20:14Z
dc.date 2013-08-22T14:20:14Z
dc.date 2013-07
dc.date.accessioned 2015-05-28T10:06:22Z
dc.date.available 2015-05-28T10:06:22Z
dc.date.issued 2015-05-28
dc.identifier 978-1-920517-40-3
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/11090/615
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11090/615
dc.description Gauging levels of welfare using data on income and expenditure is informative yet limited and can be enhanced by including non-money-metric measures. Nationally representative data sets from 1993 and 2010-2011 which cover a broad set of domains are used to calculate a multidimensional poverty index (MPI) for each year. This paper calculates these indices and uses them to assess trends in multidimensional poverty in South Africa over the post-apartheid period. From 1993 to 2010 MPI poverty fell by 29 percentage points from 37% to 8%. During this time period, the level of severe MPI poverty also dropped substantially from 17% of the population in 1993 to just over 1% in 2010. Not only did the incidence and intensity of multidimensional poverty fall significantly, but the average distance from the multidimensional poverty line across all dimensions also decreased over the period. These declines in multidimensional poverty are notably stronger than the estimated declines in money-metric poverty, which are also estimated and compared for the post-apartheid period.
dc.language en
dc.relation Working Paper;99
dc.subject Income
dc.subject Expenditure
dc.subject Multidimensional poverty
dc.subject Post-apartheid period
dc.title What happened to multidimensional poverty in South Africa between 1993 and 2010?
dc.type Working Paper
uct.type.publication Research en_ZA
uct.type.resource Working Paper en_ZA
dc.publisher.institution University of Cape Town
dc.publisher.faculty Faculty of Commerce en_ZA
dc.publisher.department SALDRU en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Income KW - Expenditure KW - Multidimensional poverty KW - Post-apartheid period LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - What happened to multidimensional poverty in South Africa between 1993 and 2010? TI - What happened to multidimensional poverty in South Africa between 1993 and 2010? UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/615 ER - en_ZA


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