TY  - RPRT
AB  - The legacy of apartheid had much to do with the extraordinary levels of inequality and human insecurity found by the first ever nationally representative living standards survey undertaken in South Africa in 1993. Drawing on a 1998 re-survey of households in the 1993 study, this paper explores whether this legacy has been superseded, or whether apartheid's end has been only one kind of freedom that has left households in a poverty trap from which they cannot escape. The evidence indicates that significant numbers of South African poor are trapped in chronic, structural poverty, lacking the assets and entitlements needed to successfully escape poverty over time.
AU  - Carter, Michael R.
AU  - May, Julian
DA  - 1999
DA  - 1999
DO  - 10.22004/ag.econ.12667
DO  - doi
ID  - 12667
KW  - Food Security and Poverty
L1  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12667/files/stpap427.pdf
L2  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12667/files/stpap427.pdf
L4  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12667/files/stpap427.pdf
LA  - eng
LA  - English
LK  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12667/files/stpap427.pdf
N2  - The legacy of apartheid had much to do with the extraordinary levels of inequality and human insecurity found by the first ever nationally representative living standards survey undertaken in South Africa in 1993. Drawing on a 1998 re-survey of households in the 1993 study, this paper explores whether this legacy has been superseded, or whether apartheid's end has been only one kind of freedom that has left households in a poverty trap from which they cannot escape. The evidence indicates that significant numbers of South African poor are trapped in chronic, structural poverty, lacking the assets and entitlements needed to successfully escape poverty over time.
PY  - 1999
PY  - 1999
T1  - ONE KIND OF FREEDOM: POVERTY DYNAMICS IN POST-APARTHEID AFRICA
TI  - ONE KIND OF FREEDOM: POVERTY DYNAMICS IN POST-APARTHEID AFRICA
UR  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12667/files/stpap427.pdf
Y1  - 1999
T2  - Staff Paper 427
ER  -