PERCEIVED CAUSES OF POVERTY OF THE POST-APARTHEID GENERTION

Year 2013, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 73 - 80, 01.06.2013

Diana Joan Viljoen Nokwanda Maseko

Abstract

This paper analyses the perceptions of the causes of poverty using the Feagin Scale of Poverty Perceptions. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted. It was found that the respondents viewed the causes of poverty as being more structural and individualistic than fatalistic

Keywords

Poverty perceptions, Econometric modelling, Apartheid

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