The Devil Is in the Details

• Tác giả: F Clementi
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 235.4 Devils (Demons)
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2018
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 290774
• Chủ đề: 1. CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION; 2. ECONOMIC GROWTH; 3. INCOME DISTRIBUTION; 4. INEQUALITY; 5. POVERTY REDUCTION

Tóm tắt

 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 decade.