A comparison of poverty in South Africa's nine provinces

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• Respectively Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Cape Town; Lecturer, Department of Economics and Economic History, University of Port Elizabeth. This is a revised version of a paper read at the Conference of the Economic Society of South Africa held at Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 8‐9 September 1997. The work of Murray Leibbrandt was supported by a research grant from the University of Cape Town.
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