The benefits from growth following devaluation of the CFA franc in Burkina Faso in 1994 were undermined by increasing income inequality. Factors that fed that growth in income inequality: disparities in wages and in educational attainment and unequal access to productive assets

The benefits from growth following devaluation of the CFA franc in Burkina Faso in 1994 were undermined by increasing income inequality. Factors that fed that growth in income inequality: disparities in wages and in educational attainment and unequal access to productive assets.Fofack, Monga,...

Fofack and Monga analyze the dynamics of poverty and income inequality during the recovery phase of the transition that characterized Latvia in the late 1990s. Despite a continued rise in income inequality, empirical evidence suggests an improvement in living standards, owing largely to a...

This paper analyzes the dynamics of poverty and income inequality during the recovery phase of the transition that characterized the Republic of Latvia in the late 1990s. Despite a continued rise in income inequality, empirical evidence suggests an improvement in living standards, owing largely...