State of poverty and its manifestation in the nine provinces of South Africa

Key Points

• The assessment aims to evaluate poverty and the active participation of the poor in economic growth across South Africa's provinces.
• Follow-up assessment conducted five years after initial poverty profiling
• Assessment based on provincial data disaggregation
• Focused on the engagement of the poor with economic processes
• Identified trends in poverty across the nine provinces
• Highlighted barriers to participation in economic growth
• Proposed strategies for enhancing the involvement of impoverished communities