Structural poverty dynamics in urban South Africa: A mixed-methods investigation

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This paper examines the extent and determinants of structural poverty dynamics in South Africa, focusing on the socio economically disadvantaged urban African population. The quantitative analysis using panel data is triangulated with evidence from a qualitative case study integrating focus group discussions and life history interviews conducted in the township of Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Data visuali z ation methods in the form of asset pentagons and livelihood diagrams help illustrate the complex processes, livelihood strategies, and asset dynamics that condition movements int o and out of structural poverty. Results emphasi z e meagre job opportunities for low skilled labour, low schooling quality, and relationships of dependency as important dimensions. Lack of access to financial capital as well as the costs and risks associate d with the geographic location of the urban poor, often residing in precarious areas that are spatially separated from the urban centres, further constrain opportunities.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-736-1
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2019/100

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Thema: poverty ; social mobility ; livelihood assets ; mixed methods ; sub-Saharan Africa ; South Africa

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Schotte, Simone
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2019

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2019/736-1
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/211324
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ