Type | Journal Article - Trade and industry monitor |
Title | The impact of income transfers on poverty levels in the subsistence fisheries sector |
Author(s) | |
Volume | 18 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2001 |
Page numbers | 0-0 |
URL | http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/Research_Units/DPRU/TradeandIndustryMonitor.htm |
Abstract | Income transfers are a means of alleviating poverty. In order to utilise this type of poverty enhancing mechanism, it is necessary to understand the potential poverty reduction effect it may have. In this article, Reza Daniels discusses the likely impact of income transfers on poverty and inequality levels in the subsistence fisheries sector of South Africa. The article allows us to answer some of the following questions: what is the impact of the hypothetical transfer on income levels in the target population, who are the likely beneficiaries and why, and what are the opportunity costs of the transfer given limited state resources? |
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