O K F OVERTY D YNAMICS IN P OST -A PARTHEID S OUTH A FRICA.pdf

ONE KIND OF FREEDOM : POVERTY DYNAMICS IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA Michael R. Carter and Julian May December, 1999 Please address all correspondence to: Michael R. Carter Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 carter@ fax: +1/608/263-2478 __________ * The work reported here is the outcome of a collaborative project between researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the University of Natal, and the University of Wisconsin. In addition to support from these three institutions, the following provided financial support: the United States Agency for International Development (Office of Women in Development - Grant Number FAO- 0100-G-00-5050-00 Strengthening Development Policy through Gender Analysis; the BASIS/CRSP project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a University Partnership Grant); the Ford Foundation; a Centre for Science Development population studies grant to the University of Natal; and the Development Bank of Southern Africa. We also gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU). The authors gratefully acknowledge comments received from seminar participants at Cornell University, the University of Wisconsin and the Northeastern Universities Development Economics Consortium annual conference. Summary— The legacy of apartheid had much to do with the extraordinary levels of inequality and human insecurity found by the first ever nationally representative living standards survey undertaken in South Africa