Analysis of poverty among the elderly in South Africa using the 2018 GHS data
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Keywords
Poverty; Elderly poverty; poverty status; household poverty; South Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2020-01-20 (Economics of Ageing)
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