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Post-Apartheid South Africa: Poverty and Distribution Trends in an Era of Globalization

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Van der Berg, Servaas
Louw, Megan
Burger, Ronelle

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South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994 created new possibilities for economic policy. Economic liberalization brought sustained, if unspectacular, growth that reversed the long decline in per capita incomes, but left its scars in much job shedding associated with business becoming internationally competitive. This accords with international evidence that trade liberalization takes time to realize positive employment effects. Disappointing employment growth in the face of an expanding labourforce fed rising unemployment. However, using poverty estimates from a combination of sources, this study demonstrates that poverty nevertheless declined quite substantially after the turn of the century. Poverty dominance testing shows this conclusion to be insensitive to the selection of poverty line or measure. But empirical analysis does not allow strong conclusions to be drawn on causal relationships between globalization and poverty trends.

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Keywords: trade; labour; South Africa; globalization;

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F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Country and Industry Studies of Trade
I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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