Income Distribution and Growth's Ability to Reduce Poverty: Evidence from Rural and Urban African Economies
Augustin Fosu ()
No wp-2010-092, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
Abstract:
The present study examines the degree to which income distribution affects the ability of economic growth to reduce poverty, based on 1990s data for a sample of rural and urban sectors of African economies. Using the basic needs approach, an analysis-of-covariance model is derived and estimated, with the headcount, gap and squared gap poverty ratios serving as the respective dependent variables and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted incomes as explanatory variables.
Keywords: Econometric models; Economic development; Income distribution; Poverty measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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