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The Contribution of Income Components to Income Inequality in South Africa: A Decomposable Gini Analysis

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Leibbrandt, M.V.
Woolard, C.D.
Woolard, I.D.

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Households in developing countries adopt livelihood strategies that often rely on income from a diversity of sources. From a policy perspective it therefore becomes important to understand the relative importance of income sources in driving inter-household inequality and poverty.

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Paper provided by World Bank - Living Standards Measurement in its series Papers with number 125.

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Keywords: POVERTY; SOUTH AFRICA; INCOME; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

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D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General
I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare

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