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Hunger in South Africa during 2020: Results from Wave 2 of NIDS-CRAM

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  • Grace Bridgman

    (Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University)

  • Servaas van der Berg

    (Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University)

  • Leila Patel

    (Department of Economics, University of Johannesburg)

Abstract

The first wave of the National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS- CRAM) provided strong evidence that there had been a drastic increase in both adult and child hunger in the survey months, May and June 2020, and that almost half of all households had on occasion run out of money for food during April 2020. Comparisons with information from earlier surveys (the annual General Household Survey from 2002 to 2018) showed that much of the improvements since 2000 in adult and child hunger and food security due to the expansion of the Child Support Grant had been almost entirely reversed by the hard lockdown and the coronavirus pandemic. The second wave of NIDS-CRAM shows improvement in all three measures, but that hunger and food insecurity remain disturbingly high.

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  • Grace Bridgman & Servaas van der Berg & Leila Patel, 2020. "Hunger in South Africa during 2020: Results from Wave 2 of NIDS-CRAM," Working Papers 25/2020, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
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    1. Haroon Bhorat & Morné Oosthuizen & Ben Stanwix, 2020. "Social Assistance Amidst the Covid-19 Epidemic in South Africa: An Impact Assessment," Working Papers 202006, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit.
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    3. Gabrielle Wills & Servaas van der Berg & Leila Patel & Bokang Mpeta, 2020. "Household resource flows and food poverty during South Africa’s lockdown: Short-term policy implications for three channels of social protection," Working Papers 22/2020, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Covid19; child welfare; hunger; social grants;
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    JEL classification:

    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development

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