Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126291 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2015/032
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Changes in relative prices of commodities consumed in different shares across income groups can be expected to alter real income differentials between these groups. Using Mozambican household budget survey and price data from 2002/03 and 2008/09, we show that once relative price increases are accounted for, inequality of real consumption increases substantially. We obtain this result by constructing a price deflator that reflects divergent price dynamics of different product categories. Since the main factors driving this result prevail in other developing countries, it is likely that inequality may be underestimated elsewhere.
Subjects: 
relative price changes
price index
income inequality
Mozambique
JEL: 
E31
D12
D31
O55
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-917-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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