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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Fosu, Augustin Kwasi | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2010-02-17 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2011-04-26T07:41:06Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2011-04-26T07:41:06Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2008 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | | 978-92-9230-163-7 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/45114 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) comparatively with non-SSA, based on a global sample of 1977-2004 unbalanced panel data. For both regions and all three measures of poverty - headcount, gap, and squared gap - the paper finds the impact of GDP growth on poverty reduction as a decreasing function of initial inequality. The impacts are similar in direction for SSA and non-SSA, so that within both regions there are considerable disparities in the responsiveness of poverty to income growth, depending on inequality. Nevertheless, the income-growth elasticity is substantially less for SSA, implying relatively small poverty-reduction sensitiveness to growth compared with the rest of the developing world. Furthermore, the paper finds a considerable variation in the predicted values of the income-growth elasticity across a large number of SSA countries, implying the need for understanding country-specific inequality attributes for effective poverty-reduction strategies. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | UNU-WIDER Helsinki | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | Research paper / UNU-WIDER 2008.107 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | D31 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | I32 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | O49 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | inequality | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | income growth | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | poverty | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | sub-Saharan Africa | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Einkommensverteilung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Armut | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Sozialprodukt | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Afrika südlich der Sahara | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Inequality and the impact of growth on poverty: Comparative evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 589767194 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Research Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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