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Low quality education as a poverty trap March 2011 Servaas van der Berg Cobus Burger Ronelle Burger Mia de Vos Gideon du Rand Martin Gustafsson Eldridge Moses Debra Shepherd Nicholas Spaull Stephen Taylor Hendrik van Broekhuizen Dieter von Fintel THIS RESEARCH PROJECT This paper summarises some of the main findings from a large research project undertaken by the Social Policy Research Group in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University. The project was funded and this document produced with the financial assistance of the Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy Development (PSPPD), a partnership programme between the European Union and The Presidency, South Africa. The contents do not reflect the position of The Presidency or the EU. The authors wish to thank the EU, Presidency and the PSPPD for supporting this research. Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy Development A partnership between the Presidency, Republic of South Africa and the European Union A Tale of Two South Africas attempt to understand the dynamics responsible for the South African society is marked by a stark inequality in creation and perpetuation of the great South African divide incomes. Despite efforts to transform the structure of the between rich and poor, and to suggest a way forward. e