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Policy research working paper 8494
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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 polarization, particularly in the lower tail of the distribution, and this distributional change lowered the pro-poor impact of growth substantially. Without this change, poverty could have decreased an additional 5-6 percentage points during the past decade
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Clementi, F The Devil Is in the Details: Growth, Polarization, and Poverty Reduction in Africa in the Past Two Decades Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018
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English
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DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-8494
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