Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213097 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/208
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
In this paper, we investigate the long-term trend of consumption inequality in Mozambique. We show that an imbalanced growth path disproportionally benefited the better-off and caused increasing inequality, especially in more recent years, curbing the necessary reduction in poverty. Using a regression decomposition technique, our results suggest that this trend was strongly associated with the higher attained education of household heads and with changes in the structure of the economy (with less workers in the public and subsistence sectors). The trend was, however, mitigated by the tendency for the higher level of attained education and the smaller public sector to become associated with less inequality over time. These results point to the importance of accelerating the expansion of education and improving the productivity of the large subsistencesector to lower inequality in line with the sustainable development goals.
Subjects: 
inequality
Mozambique
decomposition
RIF
JEL: 
D63
I24
O55
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-434-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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