Browsing by Author "Fransman, Tina"

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    Investigating multidimensional poverty in South Africa in 2001-2016: The multidimensional poverty index (MPI) approach
    (University of the Western Cape, 2017) Fransman, Tina; Yu, Derek
    Since the dawn of democracy, South Africa has come a long way in trying to eradicate problems relating to poverty and inequality that the apartheid system left deeply engraved within the midst of our society. To date we however still live in a society characterised by severe socio-economic challenges. Most of these challenges are not straight fold, onedimensional issues. Instead, in most cases one would find that with each challenge, stem even more interrelated challenges. Up to now, poverty, associated with notions relating to scarcity, insufficiency and deficiency, is still one of these major challenges South Africa seems to be grappling with.
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    Multidimensional poverty in South Africa in 2001–16
    (Taylor & Francis, 2018) Fransman, Tina; Yu, Derek
    This study uses the Census 2001 and 2011 as well as Community Survey 2007 and 2016 data to derive a multidimensional poverty index in South Africa for each year, before assessing the changes in non-money-metric, multidimensional poverty over time. Both the incidence and intensity of multidimensional poverty decreased continuously, and these declines were more rapid than that of money-metric poverty. The decrease in multidimensional poverty between 2001 and 2016 was most rapid for female Africans residing in rural areas in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu–Natal provinces. Multidimensional poverty was most serious in numerous district councils in these two provinces, despite the fact that poverty decline was also most rapid in these district councils. The results of the multidimensional poverty index decomposition indicated that Africans contributed more than 95% to multidimensional poverty, while unemployment, years of schooling and disability were the three indicators contributing most to poverty.