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How large are African inequalities? Towards Distributional National Accounts in Africa, 1990 - 2017
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2019.
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Abstract
- This paper makes a first attempt to estimate the evolution of income inequality in Africa from 1990 to 2017 by combining surveys, tax data and national accounts in a systematic manner. The low quality of the raw data calls for a lot of caution. Results suggest that income inequality in Africa is very high, and stands at par with Latin America or India in that respect. Southern and Central Africa are particularly unequal. The bulk of continent-wide income inequality comes from the within country component, and the between country component was even slightly reduced in the two last decades, due to higher growth in poorer countries. Inequality was rather stable over the period, with the exception of Southern Africa. Dualism between agriculture and other sectors and mining rents seem to be important determinants of inequality.
- Subjects :
- RICHESSE
AGRICULTURE
Distributional National Accounts
DEVELOPPEMENT ECONOMIQUE
HISTOIRE ECONOMIQUE
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
PAUVRETE
INEGALITE SOCIALE
DINA
ACTIVITE SECTORIELLE
DISTRIBUTION
Africa
ETUDE COMPARATIVE
Inequalities
Income inequality
COMPTABILITE NATIONALE
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.dedup.wf.001..5bdb2aac0107b02df1d7679dcd1a6c14