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While the world has seen a decline in absolute poverty, it has also seen a simultaneous rise in economic inequality. This is the case in all of the major economies as well as in emerging ones, including South Africa.
Is there a South African explanation of poverty and inequality that is distinctive and different from an explanation of poverty and inequality that would be used in other contexts and countries? What are the familiar constants that characterise the interdependence of this ubiquitous pairing? How can the discussion on poverty and inequality be taken forward? Is wealth taxation a viable instrument to reduce wealth inequality in South Africa?
In Poverty and Inequality: Diagnosis, Prognosis and Responses, the authors explore these and many others gritty questions as they analyse the complexity of poverty and inequality beyond an over-determination of the concepts by the economic or the wealth index in South Africa.
Contents
1 Poverty and inequality in South Africa: The state of the discussion in 2018Part 1: South Africa And The World
2 South African inequalities in a global perspective
3 Poverty and inequality: South Africa in a continental context
4 South Africa and the struggle for international equality
Part 2: Politics, Ethics And The State
5 Post-apartheid inequality and the long shadow of history
6 Poverty and rights: Philosophical, historical and jurisprudential perspectives
7 Realising socioeconomic rights: A reconceptualised constitutional dialogue
8 'Accounting' for the capabilities and social value of migrants: The distance to openness
Part 3: Economy
9 Wealth taxation as an instrument to reduce wealth inequality in South Africa
10 Tradition meets modernity: Bafokeng approaches to overcoming poverty and inequality
11 Indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa
Part 4 Society (The Social Economy)
12 The National Development Plan as a response to poverty and inequality in South Africa
13 Upgrading informal trading: Impacts on livelihoods and cohesion in Khayelitsha
14 Abstract human right or material practice? Academic freedom in an unequal society
15 Beyond the campus gate: Higher education and place-based development in South Africa
