The devil is in the details : growth, polarization, and poverty reduction in Africa in the past two decades / F. Clementi, M. Fabiani, V. Molini
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: World Bank E-Library Archive | Policy research working paper ; 8494Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, June 2018Description: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 25 Seiten) : IllustrationenSubject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: The Devil Is in the Details: Growth, Polarization, and Poverty Reduction in Africa in the Past Two Decades. Druck-Ausgabe Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8494Online resources: Summary: This paper investigates the distributional changes that limited pro-poor growth in the past two decades in Sub-Saharan Africa; these changes went undetected by standard inequality measures. By developing a new decomposition technique based on a nonparametric method-the relative distribution-the paper finds a clear distributional pattern affecting almost all the analyzed countries. Nineteen of 24 countries experienced a significant increase in polarization, particularly in the lower tail of the distribution, and this distributional change lowered the pro-poor impact of growth substantially. Without this change, poverty could have decreased an additional 5-6 percentage points during the past decadePPN: PPN: 1031644555Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBONo physical items for this record
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