The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between … poverty and inequality. The findings imply that policies directed towards reducing within-component inequality will be more …

The paper looks at how inequality in household expenditure components affects total inequality and poverty in Malawi …. Using data from the second integrated household survey (IHS2), we find that the elasticities of poverty with respect to …-component inequality increases overall poverty in Malawi. The results also show that the elasticities of poverty, as measured by the …

This paper looks at the linkage between poverty and inequality by investigating the poverty impacts of changes in … within and between inequalities in Malawi. We recognize the multidimensional nature of both poverty and inequality by … namely; what is the contribution of within-group inequalities (vertical inequalities) to total poverty? And what is the …

The paper looks at poverty and inequality across areas in Malawi. The focus is on both monetary (consumption) and non … monetary (health and education) dimensions of well being. Stochastic poverty dominance tests show that rural areas are poorer … in the three dimensions regardless of poverty line chosen. Stochastic inequality dominance tests find that the north and …