Changes in income poverty over the post-apartheid period: An analysis based on data from the 1993 Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development and the 2008 base wave of the National Income Dynamics Study

Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 25-43

  Leibbrandt, M ^a   Finn, A ^a   Argent, J ^a   Woolard, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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EID: 78449270135     PISSN: 03796205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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