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The devil is in the details : growth, polarization, and poverty reduction in Africa in the past two decades (English)

This paper investigates the distributional changes that limited pro-poor growth in the past two decades in Sub-Saharan Africa; these changes went undetected by standard inequality measures. By developing a new decomposition technique based on a nonparametric method -- the relative distribution -- the paper finds a clear distributional pattern affecting almost all the analyzed countries. Nineteen of 24 countries experienced a significant increase in...
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  • 2018/06/25

  • WPS8494

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  • Africa,

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  • 2018/06/25

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  • The devil is in the details : growth, polarization, and poverty reduction in Africa in the past two decades

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Clementi,F.; Fabiani,M.; Molini,V..

The devil is in the details : growth, polarization, and poverty reduction in Africa in the past two decades (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8494 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/604321529955228067

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