Fact Sheet: Poverty in South Africa | South African Regional Poverty Network (... - The Diigo Meta page

• 08 Feb 11
  

  terpfreak08

  South Africa poverty

• 27 Jul 10
  

  Russel Caldwell

  whites as a percentage of south africa population

  • While the poverty rate measures the proportion of a region’s population living below the poverty line it does not give any indication of how far below the poverty line poor households are. For this the HSRC has used a measure called the poverty gap that measures the required annual income transfer to all poor households to bring them out of poverty. The HSRC study has shown that the poverty gap has grown from R56-billion in 1996 to R81-billion in 2001 indicating that poor households have sunk deeper into poverty over this period.
• 07 Jul 08
  

  Dripa B

  the proportion of people living in poverty in South Africa has not changed significantly between 1996 and 2001. However, those households living in poverty have sunk deeper into poverty and the gap between rich and poor has widened.

  gini poverty SouthAfrica

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