How does income inequality impact the propensity for and levels of formal and informal household debt? This paper … as well as a zero-inflated Poisson model are employed, and inequality is measured by a household relative deprivation … small-scale ventures and household financial security and a keeping-up effect- through hire purchase of furniture and …

per capita household income, the introduction and expansion of social grants has helped alleviate the inherited burden of … grants in inequality reduction remains unclear. We use national household survey data from 1993 and 2008 and the major income … equalizing effect. More recent decomposition techniques allow us to net out the effect of changes in household composition on …

obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two … and break it down into betweenhousehold and within-household components. Overall inequality tends to be higher in … than half of the total inequality. Intra-household inequality is an issue in countries even when, on average, there is …

of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and …

The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent …

from 3,676 households that appear in at least two waves to explore the effect of income diversification on household … increasing household consumption. …

Household budget surveys in sub-Saharan Africa are designed to facilitate poverty measurement and may fail to fully … underreporting by aligning consumption derived from Mozambican household surveys with national accounts. Consumption in categories … most consumed by wealthy households is more frequently underreported, and therefore scaling household level consumption by …

effect of the reform on household poverty and inequality. Analysis is based on the Ghana Microsimulation Model which has the …