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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the …
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Time spent waiting for services represents unproductive time imposed on individuals trying to fulfill basic needs …. While qualitative and ethnographic work has found that income disparities also translate into disparities in time kept … waiting for services, little evidence exists to confirm the scale and extent of socioeconomic differences in waiting time. We …
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understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in …, Mozambique, and South Africa. We conclude that the balance between policies aimed at growth and measures aimed at redistribution …
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GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- Stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …
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GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …
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With the year 2015 - the MDG finishing line - approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world … rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully contribute to the global …
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This paper proposes a multidimensional procedure for jointly assessing the absolute and relative pro-poorness of growth. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269284
This paper proposes a multidimensional procedure for jointly assessing the absolute and relative pro-poorness of growth. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009515911
This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 African countries for a 2010 cross-sectional study. OLS,...
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This paper proposes a multidimensional procedure for jointly assessing the absolute and relative pro-poorness of growth. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091945