The paper estimates inequality and absolute poverty in Egypt for 1997 with measures that are robust to sample design … being significantly poorer, but significant differences in poverty were not found between Upper and Lower Egypt. This … bootstrap approach which replicates the sample design. Standard errors for poverty indices are corrected for the design effects …

spanning 35 years with other sources, we estimate a model of the joint determination of consumption-poverty measures … not confined to those near the poverty line. …

This paper presents a profile of poverty in Egypt for 1997. It assesses the magnitude of poverty and its distribution … heterogeneity among the poor, and helps identify empirical correlates of poverty. The poverty profile is constructed using data from … the recently completed Egypt Integrated Household Survey, a nationwide, multiple-topic household survey, carried out by …