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Horizontal inequality in education and wealth in Tanzania : a 20-year perspective

Maliti, Emmanuel - 2016

education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … other sub-national regions. However, Tanzanian society is becoming more unequal in wealth with rising wealth inequality …

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Horizontal and intersecting inequalities in Mozambique : 1997-2017

Santos, Ricardo; Egger, Eva-Maria; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2021

and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using … average household wealth indicators, there is a strong suggestion of increasing group inequalities between 1997 and 2017 …, the differences in average wealth between groups, if perceived, may feed grievances. They should be better understood so …

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Inequality in India : a review of levels and trends

Himanshu - 2019

standard economic indicators of income/consumption and wealth, the paper briefly reviews distributions of selected non …

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Does the African middle class defend democracy? : evidence from Kenya

Cheeseman, Nic - 2014

Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science. But has the rise of the African middle class promoted democratic consolidation? This paper uses the case of Kenya to investigate the attitudes and behaviours of the middle class....

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Income mobility in Ecuador : new evidence from individual income tax returns

Cano, Liliana - 2015

This paper presents new evidence on the study of income mobility in Ecuador over the period 2004 - 11. We utilize longitudinal data of individual income tax returns to measure income mobility both at the top and at the middle of the income distribution, and we find three main empirical results....

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South Africa's emerging black middle class : a harbinger of political change?

Mattes, Robert - 2014

South Africa has seen a significant increase in the size of the black middle class in the post-apartheid period, but the attitudinal consequences of indicators of the middle class, as of 2011, are inconsistent and modest in size. While members of the middle class are no more likely to hold...

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Rethinking the measurement of the middle class : evidence from Egypt

Abu-Ismail, Khalid; Sarangi, Niranjan - 2015

The degree of choice households have over their consumption expenditure is critical in deciding their economic class. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and assess their well-being in the period 1995-2011. Our...

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The rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa : implications for food system transformation

Tschirley, David; Reardon, Thomas Anthony; Dolislager, … - 2014

We examine the implications of the rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa for food consumption patterns and the food system. A unique classification of food items shows that highly processed food has one-third of the purchased food market, with comparable shares in rural and urban...

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Varieties of capitalists? : the middle class, private sector and economic outcomes in Africa

Handley, Antoinette - 2014

Political scientists have generally seen two key features of African political economies - a relatively small or absent middle class, and a middle class that is unusually embedded in the state - as key explanations of the troubled political and economic trajectories of many African societies....

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Is it what you inherited or what you learnt? : intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal

Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2011

by land inheritance, other bequests and parental background as influences on an adult's economic welfare and economic … land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident …

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