Equity Implications of Reforms on Living Standards and Child Health in Post-apartheid South Africa

The international community recently celebrated an important milestone, namely, a decade of non-racial democratic governance in South Africa following the end of apartheid in that country. Not surprisingly, this period has witnessed a large literature on the behaviour and welfare of South African households. This was aided in large part by the availability of good quality data sets based on household surveys carried out by international agencies such as the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) with the cooperation and support of local institutions.