Poverty & inequality : diagnosis prognosis responses : state of the nation / edited by Soudien, Reddy and Woolard.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-318) and index.

South Africa 2018: the state of the discussion on poverty and inequality -- Part 1. South Africa and the world. South African inequalities in a global perspective -- Poverty and inequality: South Africa in a continental context -- South Africa and the struggle for international equality -- Part 2. Politics, ethics and the state. Post-apartheid inequality and the long shadow of history -- Poverty and rights: philosophical, historical and jurisprudential perspectives -- Realising socioeconomic rights: a reconceptualised constitutional dialogue -- `Accounting' for migrants in inequality and the future: the distance to openness -- Part 3. Economy. Wealth taxation as an instrument to reduce wealth inequality in South Africa -- Tradition meets modernity: Bafokeng approaches to overcoming poverty and inequality -- Indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa -- Part 4. Society. The National Development Plan as a response to poverty and inequality in South Africa -- Upgrading informal trading: Impacts on livelihoods and cohesion in Khayelitsha -- Abstract human right or material practice? Academic freedom in an unequal society -- Beyond the campus gate: Higher education and place-based development in South Africa.

"While the world has seen a decline in absolute poverty, it has also seen a simultaneous rise in economic inequality. This is the case in all of the major economies as well as in emerging ones, including South Africa. Is there a South African explanation of poverty and inequality that is distinctive and different from an explanation of poverty and inequality that would be used in other contexts and countries? What are the familiar constants that characterise the interdependence of this ubiquitous pairing? How can the discussion on poverty and inequality be taken forward? Is wealth taxation a viable instrument to reduce wealth inequality in South Africa? In Poverty and Inequality: Diagnosis, Prognosis and Responses, the authors explore these and many others gritty questions as they analyse the complexity of poverty and inequality beyond an over-determination of the concepts by the economic or the wealth index in South Africa."--Publisher's description.