“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shock ...

Removal of poverty as the objective and growth and redistribution as joint instruments to achieve it remained integral to ...

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024 ... The study's findings show that to achieve inclusive economic growth, countries should aggressively invest in ...

The Deputy President used the lecture platform to spotlight South Africa’s overarching theme for its G20 tenure: “Solidarity, ...

To compound these issues, economic growth has stagnated since 2008. Ending extreme poverty, unemployment and inequality requires economic growth that includes more people. To get that result ...

the pace of economic expansion in the region remains below the growth rate of the previous decade (2000-2014) and is insufficient to have a significant effect on poverty reduction. Transformative ...

A second factor mattered much more: strong growth in wages for the poor. This accounted for over half of the fall. The backdrop to this was a long period of robust economic growth, helped along by ...

There is no factual evidence that deindustrialisation, poverty, inequality and unemployment is caused by black economic empowerment, as argued by William Gumede ...

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country’s per capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a measure of how spending from income is distributed, stands at 0.65.

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024 ... study’s findings show that to achieve inclusive economic growth, countries should aggressively invest in ...

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024 ... The study's findings show that to achieve inclusive economic growth, countries should aggressively invest in ...