This paper examines for the first time inequality of opportunity for income in Africa, by analyzing large …, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar and Uganda. We compute inequality of opportunity indexes in keeping with the main proposals in the … intergenerational mobility between social origins and positions, of the distribution of education and occupations, and of the earnings …

this inequality. Furthermore, intergenerational educational and occupational mobility and the equality of opportunity for … time inequality of opportunity in Africa, aside inequality of resources and of living standards. We confirm the prevalence … of high levels of inequality among the region’s countries. Yet we also find considerable differences in the structures of …

Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones …