This paper computes asset-based inequality for 44 African countries in multiple waves using over a million household histories to study inequality between and within countries. It decomposed within country inequality into components deemed to represent opportunities and those attributed to...

This paper examines how inequality could be tackled through structural transformation using unit record data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Africa. Results suggest inequality between countries tends to be higher when the share of labor employed or value-added in the...