Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107974 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/126
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper seeks to measure and explain changes in incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya. It starts from a very long-term perspective covering the last century, but then focuses on a more detailed analysis of the recent period for which data from household surveys are available. We seek to provide consistent estimates of what has happened to national income, inequality and poverty over time, and to explain why they evolved in the way they did. We relate changes in inequality and poverty to changes in factor endowments and changes in economic and employment structures. We also provide some policy conclusions.
Subjects: 
endowments
employment
growth inequality
Kenya
poverty
JEL: 
I32
N37
O55
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-847-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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