@article{Aguero:12621,
      recid = {12621},
      author = {Aguero, Jorge M. and Carter, Michael R. and May, Julian},
      title = {Poverty and Inequality in the First Decade of South  Africa's Democracy: What Can be Learned from Panel Data?},
      address = {2006},
      number = {1800-2016-142203},
      series = {Staff Paper Series No. 493},
      pages = {21},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {Using a longitudinal survey of South African households  over the 1993-2004 period, this paper evaluates changes in  income distribution since the end of apartheid. Inequality  amongst these households has markedly increased this period  as initially better off households consistently improved  their economic well-being. Sharp increases in measured  poverty over the first half of this period were partially  reversed by later improvements for some poor households.  Comparisons between actual and "market-generated" income  distributions suggest that these improvements were driven  in part by government transfer programs. Nonetheless, the  chronically poor remain a significant fraction of the total  poor, and 60% of those households that were poor in 1993  are still poor in 2004. Analysis of the next generation  (that is the now grown children of the original survey  households) shows a similar pattern of bifurcation, with  one group moving ahead rapidly, and another mired at low  living levels.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12621},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.12621},
}