Poverty and economic growth in Egypt, 1995-2000 (English)

After a decade of slow economic growth Egypt's rate of growth recovered in the late 1990s, averaging more than five percent a year. But the effect of this growth on poverty patterns has not been systematically examined using consistent, comparable household datasets. In this paper, the authors use the rich set of unit-level data from the most recent Egyptian household surveys (1995-96 and 1999-2000) to assess changes in poverty and inequality between...
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El-Laithy,Heba Farida A. F.; Lokshin,Michael M.; Banerji,Arup.

Poverty and economic growth in Egypt, 1995-2000 (English). Policy, research working paper series ; no. WPS 3068 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/846511468746774719

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