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Assessing the inclusiveness of growth in Africa: Evidence from Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania

Houngbonon, Georges Vivien; Bauer, Arthur; Ndiaye, Abdoulaye - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption

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Poverty, inequality, and prices in post-apartheid South Africa

Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Oosthuizen, Morne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends have been the subject of intensive analysis, yet relatively little … attention has been devoted to the impact of differential price movements on the measurement of poverty and inequality. This …

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Utility-Consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10: Snapshots in the presence of multiple economy-wide shocks

Stifel, David; Razafimanantena, Tiaray; Rakotomanana, Faly - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

We use Arndt and Simler.s (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Madagascar in 2001, 2005 and 2010. Because two major political crises occurred between the survey periods, the snapshots of national poverty ri

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Growth, poverty, and inequality: The case study of Cameroon

Fambon, Samuel; McKay, Andy; Timnou, Joseph-Pierre; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis …

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Monetary inequality among households in Togo: An illustration based on the decomposition of the Gini coefficient using the Shapley value approach

Noglo, Yawo Agbenyegan - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

This paper aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among …

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Rural household income mobility in transitional China: Evidence from China Household Income Project

Yang, Sui - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2015

Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 and 2009 was mu

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Threshold and interaction effects in the trade, growth, and inequality relationship

Leyaro, Vincent - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as … inequality can …

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It worked in China, so why not in Africa? The political economy challenge of Special Economic Zones

Farole, Thomas; Moberg, Lotta - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

African countries have sought to replicate the success of East Asia by implementing special economic zones. Despite decades of international experience, there remains no blueprint for successful special economic zone policies, and the majority of special

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The centre cannot hold: Patterns of polarization in Nigeria

Clementi, Fabio; Dabalen, Andrew L.; Molini, Vasco; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Our hypothesis is that Nigeria is going through a process of economic polarization. An analysis of this type is new for Nigeria; the limited availability of comparable data has hindered an investigation that requires data series not too close in time. The

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Did Trade Openness Affect Income Distribution in Latin America? Evidence for the years 1980.2010

Szekely, Miguel; Samano, Claudia - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

This paper offers a medium-term perspective for analysing the trade openness.inequality relationship in Latin America … years 1980-2010. This 30-year database allows observing clearly that the increases in inequality throughout the 1980s and … this regard is that greater trade openness is associated with contemporaneous increases in inequality in the region. The …

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