Tax(i)ing the poor? Commuting costs in South Africa
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Commuting costs; Minibus taxis; South Africa;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IUE-2015-10-17 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2015-10-17 (Public Economics)
- NEP-TRE-2015-10-17 (Transport Economics)
- NEP-URE-2015-10-17 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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