"Household surveys have long been used to estimate poverty and inequality trends, as well as trends in education and … increased or remained stable in rural Africa. For all four services, among the poorest households coverage remains virtually … community to progressively increase access to modern infrastructure services in Africa. "--World Bank web site …

-Saharan Africa; these changes went undetected by standard inequality measures. By developing a new decomposition technique based on a … distribution, and this distributional change lowered the pro-poor impact of growth substantially. Without this change, poverty …