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Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa
The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book, Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass explain why this is so, offering a detailed and comprehensive analysis of inequality in South Africa from the midtwentieth century to the early twenty-first century. They show that the basis of inequality shifted in the last decades of the twentieth century from race to class. Formal deracialization of public policy did not reduce the actual disadvantages experienced by the poor nor the advantages of the rich. The fundamental continuity in patterns of advantage and disadvantage resulted from underlying continuities in public policy, or what Seekings and Nattrass call the \"distributional regime.\" The post-apartheid distributional regime continues to divide South Africans into insiders and outsiders. The insiders, now increasingly multiracial, enjoy good access to well-paid, skilled jobs; the outsiders lack skills and employment.
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Policy, politics and poverty in South Africa
Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced poverty, and explains how and why these policies were adopted. The analysis offers lessons for the study of poverty elsewhere in the world.
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Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Authors' Note -- 1 Introduction: States, Markets, and Inequality -- 2 South African Society on the Eve of Apartheid -- 3 Social Change and Income Inequality Under Apartheid -- 4 Apartheid as a Distributional Regime -- 5 The Rise of Unemployment Under Apartheid -- 6 Income Inequality at Apartheid's End -- 7 Social Stratification and Income Inequality at the End of Apartheid -- 8 Did the Unemployed Constitute an Underclass? -- 9 Income Inequality After Apartheid -- 10 The Post-Apartheid Distributional Regime -- 11 Transforming the Distributional Regime -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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The Democratic Developmental State
The idea of a democratic developmental state forms part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated on by academics, and embraced by policy makers in many emerging economies in the global South.
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