Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: challenges for action and research?
| dc.contributor.author | Du Toit, Andries | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-26T12:33:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-26T12:33:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-04-26T12:32:23Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Ten years after liberation, the persistence of poverty is one of the most important and urgent problems facing South Africa. This paper reflects on some of the findings of research undertaken as part of PLAAS's participation in the work of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, situates it within the broader literature on poverty in South Africa, and considers some emergent challenges.? Though PLAAS's survey, being only the first wave of a panel study, does not yet cast light on short term poverty dynamics, it illuminates key aspects of the structural conditions that underpin poverty that last for a long time: the close interactions between asset poverty, employment vulnerability and subjection to unequal social power relations. Coming to grips with these dynamics requires going beyond the limitations of conventional "sustainable livelihoods" analyses and functionalist analyses of South African labour markets. The paper argues for a re-engagement with the traditions of critical sociology, anthropology and the theoretical traditions that allow a closer exploration of the political economy of chronic poverty at micro and macro levels. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Du Toit, A. (2005). <i>Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: challenges for action and research?</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19233 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Du Toit, Andries <i>Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: challenges for action and research?.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19233 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Du Toit, A. (2005). Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: challenges for action and research. Centre for Social Science Research: University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Du Toit, Andries AB - Ten years after liberation, the persistence of poverty is one of the most important and urgent problems facing South Africa. This paper reflects on some of the findings of research undertaken as part of PLAAS's participation in the work of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, situates it within the broader literature on poverty in South Africa, and considers some emergent challenges.? Though PLAAS's survey, being only the first wave of a panel study, does not yet cast light on short term poverty dynamics, it illuminates key aspects of the structural conditions that underpin poverty that last for a long time: the close interactions between asset poverty, employment vulnerability and subjection to unequal social power relations. Coming to grips with these dynamics requires going beyond the limitations of conventional "sustainable livelihoods" analyses and functionalist analyses of South African labour markets. The paper argues for a re-engagement with the traditions of critical sociology, anthropology and the theoretical traditions that allow a closer exploration of the political economy of chronic poverty at micro and macro levels. DA - 2005 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2005 T1 - Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: challenges for action and research? TI - Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: challenges for action and research? UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19233 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19233 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Du Toit A. Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: challenges for action and research?. 2005 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19233 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: challenges for action and research? | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |