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Development Southern Africa Volume 32, 2015 - Issue 1: South Africa's Emergent Middle Class
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Growth of the middle class: Two perspectives that matter for policy

Justin VisagieDirector of Economic Research, Department of Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Beacon Hill, Corner Hargreaves Street and Hockley Close, King Williams Town5600, South Africa.Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 3-24 | Published online: 06 Dec 2014

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Ali Meghji. (2017) A relational study of the Black middle classes and globalised White hegemony: Identities, interactions, and ideologies in the United States, United Kingdom, and South Africa. Sociology Compass 11:9, pages e12504.
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Andrew Tomita, Alain M Vandormael, Diego Cuadros, Enrico Di Minin, Vuokko Heikinheimo, Frank Tanser, Rob Slotow & Jonathan K Burns. (2017) Green environment and incident depression in South Africa: a geospatial analysis and mental health implications in a resource-limited setting. The Lancet Planetary Health 1:4, pages e152-e162.
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Charlotte Lemanski. (2017) Citizens in the middle class: The interstitial policy spaces of South Africa's housing gap. Geoforum 79, pages 101-110.
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Cheryl McEwan, Alex Hughes & David Bek. (2015) Theorising middle class consumption from the global South: A study of everyday ethics in South Africa’s Western Cape. Geoforum 67, pages 233-243.
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Simone Schotte. (2017) The Anxious and the Climbers: Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Democracy Among South Africa's Middle Class. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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