Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/191334 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/18/011
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in Tanzania which is measured on the basis of whether and how often respondents go, in the course of one year, without food, water, medical care, cooking fuel and cash income. By using the data collected by Afrobarometer in Tanzania, we are able to create one set of indicators that capture the extension of lived poverty, that is what percentage of the respondents, experiences deprivation, but we also develop a series of indicators that capture the severity of lived poverty, that is how frequently respondents experience this problem. Our statistical analyses reveal that while Tanzanian progress along the developmental path did not have a significant impact on the extension of lived poverty, it made a large and significant contribution to reduce its severity.
Subjects: 
poverty
lived poverty
Afrobarometer
development
inequality
Tanzania
JEL: 
O40
O57
I10
I20
I32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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