Re examining the multidimensional poverty index of South Africa

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2023

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Social Indicators Research

Abstract

The persistently high level of poverty remains one of the main socio-economic issues in South Africa since the democratic transition in 1994. Many South Africa studies focused on using money-metric measures to examine poverty levels and rates, but in recent years there has been an emergence of studies that examined multidimensional non-money metric poverty. Nonetheless, some poverty indicators are still ignored. Thus, this study re-examined the extent of multidimensional poverty in South Africa with the derivation of a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) by considering the various overlooked indicators.

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multidimensional poverty, MPI, non-income welfare, South Africa, rural areas

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Jackson, S. and Yu, D., 2023. Re-examining the multidimensional poverty index of South Africa. Social Indicators Research, pp.1-25.