Poverty, Inequality and Labour Markets in Africa: A Descriptive Overview
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2005-03
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University of Cape Town
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Development and Poverty Research Unit Working Paper Development Policy Research Unit Working Paper 05/092
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This paper examines, through the application of available data, the poverty, inequality and labour market challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The paper illustrates that apart from levels of poverty and inequality that are inordinately high in SSA, the region is also beset with perhaps the more worrying problem of accounting for almost all of the world's ultra-poor: namely those individuals living on less than half of the standard $1 a day poverty line.
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Bhorat, H. 2005-03. Poverty, Inequality and Labour Markets in Africa: A Descriptive Overview. Development and Poverty Research Unit Working Paper Development Policy Research Unit Working Paper 05/092. University of Cape Town.