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Servaas van der Berg
Researcher at Stellenbosch University
Publications - 131
Citations - 3951
Servaas van der Berg is an academic researcher from Stellenbosch University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Population. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 124 publications receiving 3706 citations. Previous affiliations of Servaas van der Berg include Alexander von Humboldt Foundation & University of Cape Town.
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How Effective Are Poor Schools? Poverty and Educational Outcomes in South Africa.
TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between educational outcomes, socio-economic status (SES), pupil and teacher characteristics, and school resources and processes, and found that poor schools were least able to systematically overcome inherited socioeconomic disadvantage.
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Using an Asset Index to Assess Trends in Poverty in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries
TL;DR: Sahn et al. as discussed by the authors used comparable, nationally representative surveys and extended the work of [Sahn, D. E., & Stifel, D C. (2000). Poverty comparisons over time and across countries in Africa.
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Apartheid's Enduring Legacy: Inequalities in Education
TL;DR: A broad overview of the economic dimensions of the educational situation in South Africa a decade after the political transition is provided in this article. But despite massive resource shifts to black schools, overall matriculation results did not improve in the post-apartheid period.
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Changing patterns of South African income distribution: Towards time series estimates of distribution and poverty
Servaas van der Berg,Megan Louw +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used information from various sources of data (censuses, household surveys, marketing surveys, published wage data series, etc.) to inform estimates of interand intra-group distribution over a longer time frame, in an effort to improve analysis of income inequality and poverty trends.
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South African social security under apartheid and beyond 1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the social security system against the backdrop of apartheid and the more recent democratisation, and assesses its major deficiencies, the forces acting for its expansion and the binding fiscal constraint.