Poverty alleviation in the subsistence fisheries sector

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Title:	Poverty alleviation in the subsistence fisheries sector
Author:	Daniels, R.C.
Year:	2002
Periodical:	South African Journal of Economics
Volume:	70
Issue:	5
Pages:	809-829
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	poverty marine fisheries
External link:	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2002.tb00046.x/pdf
Abstract:	This paper addresses the question of poverty alleviation in subsistence fishing communities in South Africa by formulating a method to quantify the impact of recent public sector efforts to provide subsistence fishers with access to the industry for the first time. It treats the poverty-reducing effects as an income grant, and therefore bases the methodology on the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (1984) index of poverty measures. The paper then extends the method beyond the realm of an income grant per se, and applies it within the context of a resource transfer that can be associated with quantities and values of various fisheries. Then it extends the analysis to include post-resource transfer effects, specifically with respect to poverty reduction. The method thus allows for answering the following questions: what is the impact of the transfer on income levels in the target population and who are the likely beneficiaries? The data on susbsistence fishing communities is taken from the Census (1996) and October Household Survey (1995). Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]