Poverty, inequality and the nature of economic growth in South Africa

Testing Democracy: Which Way is South Africa Going?

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 46-70

  Bhorat, Haroon ^a   van der Westhuizen, Carlene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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