Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: Challenges for action and research

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dc.contributor.authordu Toit, Andries
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-18T10:05:26Z
dc.date.available2019-03-18T10:05:26Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractTen years after liberation, the persistence of poverty is one of the most important and urgent problems facing South Africa. This paper reflects on some of the findings based on research undertaken as part of the participation of the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in the work of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), situates it within the broader literature on poverty in South Africa, and considers some emergent challenges. Although PLAAS’s survey, being only the first wave of a panel study, does not yet cast light on short term poverty dynamics, it illuminates key aspects of the structural conditions that underpin long-term poverty: the close interactions between asset poverty, employment-vulnerability and subjection to unequal social power relations. Coming to grips with these dynamics requires going beyond the limitations of conventional ‘sustainable livelihoods’ analyses; and functionalist analyses of South African labour markets. The paper argues for a re-engagement with the traditions of critical sociology, anthropology and the theoretical conventions that allow a closer exploration of the political economy of chronic poverty at micro and macro level.en_US
dc.identifier.citationdu Toit, A., 2005. Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: Challenges for action and research. Cape Town: Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4549
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesChronic Poverty and Development Policy;6
dc.subjectChronic povertyen_US
dc.subjectStructural povertyen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectInequalityen_US
dc.titleChronic and structural poverty in South Africa: Challenges for action and researchen_US
dc.typeBooken_US

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