This work takes a new look at the econometrics of the national-level macroeconomic relationship between inequality and growth. It focuses, in particular, on the effects of specification choices, estimation method and sample selection. It concludes that there is no robust relation running from...

A new analysis of large-sample surveys in five comparable Sub-Saharan African countries allows measuring for the first time inequality of opportunity in Africa, aside inequality of resources and of living standards. We confirm the prevalence of high levels of inequality among the region’s...

Non seulement, les mouvements de prix sont susceptibles d'affecter le pouvoir d'achat des ménages, surtout lorsqu'il s'agit de biens de subsistance comme le riz à Madagascar, mais par le biais des changements de prix relatifs entre produits s'opère une redistribution du pouvoir d'achat. Des...