아프리카ㆍ중동
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[경제] Is Inequality Systematically Underestimated in Sub-Saharan Africa A Proposal to Overcome the Problem
아프리카ㆍ 중동 일반 국외연구자료 연구보고서 - World Bank 발간일 : 2022-05-24 등록일 : 2022-05-27 원문링크
In Africa, evidence on the interactions among poverty, growth, and income distribution presents a puzzle: While growth has been robust in recent decades, the growth elasticity of poverty has remained low. This suggests that inequality has dampened the pro-poor effects of growth. However, when using standard inequality measures, there is only scattered evidence of high and growing inequality in Africa outside the extremely unequal southern cone. This paper argues that inequality mismeasurement could be the main culprit responsible for this paradox: consumption-based measures miss important information at the top end of the consumption distribution, leading to underestimation of inequality. This paper proposes distinct solutions, arguing that by reevaluating the importance of distributional issues in Africa, the need becomes apparent for refreshing the research agenda on African development in such a way that the interaction between poverty and inequality becomes a core concern.
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