The Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Inequality among All Africans

This paper uses a set of national household surveys to study the regional Sub-Saharan Africa distribution of consumption expenditure among individuals during 1993 to 2008. The analysis puts the disparities in living standards that exist among perso...

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Main Authors:	Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah, Lakner, Christoph
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	LIVING STANDARDS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION GROWTH RATES INCOME SHARE POVERTY LINE ECONOMIC GROWTH COUNTRY CLASSIFICATIONS DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PRICE LEVELS LAGS INCOME INCREASING INEQUALITY POVERTY ESTIMATES REAL GDP EXCHANGE GDP PER CAPITA ECONOMIC REVIEW DEVELOPING COUNTRIES POVERTY HEADCOUNT AVERAGE INCOMES WELFARE REAL GROWTH ECONOMIC POLICY DISTRIBUTION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POOR PEOPLE GROWTH SPELLS DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS CONSUMPTION GROWTH AVERAGE INEQUALITY WEALTH DECREASING INEQUALITY ECONOMIC OUTLOOK INEQUALITY RESULTS PER CAPITA INCOMES BETWEEN-GROUP INEQUALITY MEASURING POVERTY PER CAPITA INCOME DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS POPULATION GROWTH INEQUALITY MEASURES INCOME INEQUALITY AVERAGE INCOME SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL EXCHANGE RATES BASE YEAR ECONOMETRICS HOUSEHOLD INCOME INFLATION RATE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS LAND OWNERSHIP RELATIVE PRICES PRODUCT POOR GROWTH NATURAL RESOURCES INCOME CONVERGENCE INEQUALITY COMPONENT ECONOMIC RESEARCH LOGARITHMIC SCALE POWER PARITY REGIONAL MEDIAN CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY ESTIMATES ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE POPULATION SHARE LORENZ CURVE VALUE DEPENDENT VARIABLE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS PURCHASING POWER DEVELOPING WORLD INCREASING SHARE MEAN INCOME NATIONAL INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOMES INEQUALITY DECOMPOSITION MEASUREMENT BENCHMARK MACRO-ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC THEORY MEAN CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY MEASURE CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION ECONOMIC INEQUALITY FALLING POVERTY TRADE LOW INCOME RESIDUAL INEQUALITY GROUP INEQUALITY GDP DATA SET THEORY ECONOMIES OF SCALE GROWTH RATE EXTREME POVERTY GROWTH PERFORMANCE AVERAGE ANNUAL EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE PRIVATE CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH POSITIVE GROWTH POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY RATE ANNUAL RATE MEASURING INEQUALITY MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO CONSUME MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES POSITIVE EFFECTS GROWTH PROCESS INCOME LEVEL DEVELOPMENT POLICY INCOME GROUPS INEQUALITY REGIONAL INEQUALITY
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spelling	okr-10986-239132021-04-23T14:04:18Z The Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Inequality among All Africans Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah Lakner, Christoph LIVING STANDARDS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION GROWTH RATES INCOME SHARE POVERTY LINE ECONOMIC GROWTH COUNTRY CLASSIFICATIONS DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PRICE LEVELS LAGS INCOME INCREASING INEQUALITY POVERTY ESTIMATES REAL GDP EXCHANGE GDP PER CAPITA ECONOMIC REVIEW DEVELOPING COUNTRIES POVERTY HEADCOUNT AVERAGE INCOMES WELFARE REAL GROWTH ECONOMIC POLICY DISTRIBUTION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POOR PEOPLE GROWTH SPELLS DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS CONSUMPTION GROWTH AVERAGE INEQUALITY WEALTH DECREASING INEQUALITY ECONOMIC OUTLOOK INEQUALITY RESULTS PER CAPITA INCOMES BETWEEN-GROUP INEQUALITY MEASURING POVERTY PER CAPITA INCOME DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS POPULATION GROWTH INEQUALITY MEASURES INCOME INEQUALITY AVERAGE INCOME SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL EXCHANGE RATES BASE YEAR ECONOMETRICS HOUSEHOLD INCOME INFLATION RATE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS LAND OWNERSHIP RELATIVE PRICES PRODUCT POOR GROWTH NATURAL RESOURCES INCOME CONVERGENCE INEQUALITY COMPONENT ECONOMIC RESEARCH LOGARITHMIC SCALE POWER PARITY REGIONAL MEDIAN CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY ESTIMATES ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE POPULATION SHARE LORENZ CURVE VALUE DEPENDENT VARIABLE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS PURCHASING POWER DEVELOPING WORLD INCREASING SHARE MEAN INCOME NATIONAL INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOMES INEQUALITY DECOMPOSITION MEASUREMENT BENCHMARK MACRO-ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC THEORY MEAN CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY MEASURE CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION ECONOMIC INEQUALITY FALLING POVERTY TRADE LOW INCOME RESIDUAL INEQUALITY GROUP INEQUALITY GDP DATA SET THEORY ECONOMIES OF SCALE GROWTH RATE EXTREME POVERTY GROWTH PERFORMANCE AVERAGE ANNUAL EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE PRIVATE CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH POSITIVE GROWTH POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY RATE ANNUAL RATE MEASURING INEQUALITY MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO CONSUME MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES POSITIVE EFFECTS GROWTH PROCESS INCOME LEVEL DEVELOPMENT POLICY INCOME GROUPS INEQUALITY REGIONAL INEQUALITY This paper uses a set of national household surveys to study the regional Sub-Saharan Africa distribution of consumption expenditure among individuals during 1993 to 2008. The analysis puts the disparities in living standards that exist among persons in Africa into context with the disparities that exist within and between African countries. Regional interpersonal inequality has increased (from a Gini index of 52 percent in 1993 to 56 percent in 2008), driven by increasing disparities in living standards across countries, while there has been no systematic increase in within-country inequality. For the African distribution as a whole, growth of consumption expenditure (from household surveys) has been low (around 1 percent per year). This growth has been uneven and as a result the richest 5 percent of Africans received around 40 percent of the total gains, while the bottom third stagnated. 2016-03-09T21:57:15Z 2016-03-09T21:57:15Z 2016-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/25867448/distribution-consumption-expenditure-sub-saharan-africa-inequality-among-all-africans http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23913 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7557 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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topic	LIVING STANDARDS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION GROWTH RATES INCOME SHARE POVERTY LINE ECONOMIC GROWTH COUNTRY CLASSIFICATIONS DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PRICE LEVELS LAGS INCOME INCREASING INEQUALITY POVERTY ESTIMATES REAL GDP EXCHANGE GDP PER CAPITA ECONOMIC REVIEW DEVELOPING COUNTRIES POVERTY HEADCOUNT AVERAGE INCOMES WELFARE REAL GROWTH ECONOMIC POLICY DISTRIBUTION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POOR PEOPLE GROWTH SPELLS DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS CONSUMPTION GROWTH AVERAGE INEQUALITY WEALTH DECREASING INEQUALITY ECONOMIC OUTLOOK INEQUALITY RESULTS PER CAPITA INCOMES BETWEEN-GROUP INEQUALITY MEASURING POVERTY PER CAPITA INCOME DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS POPULATION GROWTH INEQUALITY MEASURES INCOME INEQUALITY AVERAGE INCOME SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL EXCHANGE RATES BASE YEAR ECONOMETRICS HOUSEHOLD INCOME INFLATION RATE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS LAND OWNERSHIP RELATIVE PRICES PRODUCT POOR GROWTH NATURAL RESOURCES INCOME CONVERGENCE INEQUALITY COMPONENT ECONOMIC RESEARCH LOGARITHMIC SCALE POWER PARITY REGIONAL MEDIAN CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY ESTIMATES ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE POPULATION SHARE LORENZ CURVE VALUE DEPENDENT VARIABLE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS PURCHASING POWER DEVELOPING WORLD INCREASING SHARE MEAN INCOME NATIONAL INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOMES INEQUALITY DECOMPOSITION MEASUREMENT BENCHMARK MACRO-ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC THEORY MEAN CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY MEASURE CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION ECONOMIC INEQUALITY FALLING POVERTY TRADE LOW INCOME RESIDUAL INEQUALITY GROUP INEQUALITY GDP DATA SET THEORY ECONOMIES OF SCALE GROWTH RATE EXTREME POVERTY GROWTH PERFORMANCE AVERAGE ANNUAL EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE PRIVATE CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH POSITIVE GROWTH POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY RATE ANNUAL RATE MEASURING INEQUALITY MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO CONSUME MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES POSITIVE EFFECTS GROWTH PROCESS INCOME LEVEL DEVELOPMENT POLICY INCOME GROUPS INEQUALITY REGIONAL INEQUALITY
spellingShingle	LIVING STANDARDS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION GROWTH RATES INCOME SHARE POVERTY LINE ECONOMIC GROWTH COUNTRY CLASSIFICATIONS DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PRICE LEVELS LAGS INCOME INCREASING INEQUALITY POVERTY ESTIMATES REAL GDP EXCHANGE GDP PER CAPITA ECONOMIC REVIEW DEVELOPING COUNTRIES POVERTY HEADCOUNT AVERAGE INCOMES WELFARE REAL GROWTH ECONOMIC POLICY DISTRIBUTION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POOR PEOPLE GROWTH SPELLS DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS CONSUMPTION GROWTH AVERAGE INEQUALITY WEALTH DECREASING INEQUALITY ECONOMIC OUTLOOK INEQUALITY RESULTS PER CAPITA INCOMES BETWEEN-GROUP INEQUALITY MEASURING POVERTY PER CAPITA INCOME DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS POPULATION GROWTH INEQUALITY MEASURES INCOME INEQUALITY AVERAGE INCOME SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL EXCHANGE RATES BASE YEAR ECONOMETRICS HOUSEHOLD INCOME INFLATION RATE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS LAND OWNERSHIP RELATIVE PRICES PRODUCT POOR GROWTH NATURAL RESOURCES INCOME CONVERGENCE INEQUALITY COMPONENT ECONOMIC RESEARCH LOGARITHMIC SCALE POWER PARITY REGIONAL MEDIAN CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY ESTIMATES ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE POPULATION SHARE LORENZ CURVE VALUE DEPENDENT VARIABLE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS PURCHASING POWER DEVELOPING WORLD INCREASING SHARE MEAN INCOME NATIONAL INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOMES INEQUALITY DECOMPOSITION MEASUREMENT BENCHMARK MACRO-ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC THEORY MEAN CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY MEASURE CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION ECONOMIC INEQUALITY FALLING POVERTY TRADE LOW INCOME RESIDUAL INEQUALITY GROUP INEQUALITY GDP DATA SET THEORY ECONOMIES OF SCALE GROWTH RATE EXTREME POVERTY GROWTH PERFORMANCE AVERAGE ANNUAL EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE PRIVATE CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH POSITIVE GROWTH POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY RATE ANNUAL RATE MEASURING INEQUALITY MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO CONSUME MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES POSITIVE EFFECTS GROWTH PROCESS INCOME LEVEL DEVELOPMENT POLICY INCOME GROUPS INEQUALITY REGIONAL INEQUALITY Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah Lakner, Christoph The Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Inequality among All Africans
geographic_facet	Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7557
description	This paper uses a set of national household surveys to study the regional Sub-Saharan Africa distribution of consumption expenditure among individuals during 1993 to 2008. The analysis puts the disparities in living standards that exist among persons in Africa into context with the disparities that exist within and between African countries. Regional interpersonal inequality has increased (from a Gini index of 52 percent in 1993 to 56 percent in 2008), driven by increasing disparities in living standards across countries, while there has been no systematic increase in within-country inequality. For the African distribution as a whole, growth of consumption expenditure (from household surveys) has been low (around 1 percent per year). This growth has been uneven and as a result the richest 5 percent of Africans received around 40 percent of the total gains, while the bottom third stagnated.
format	Working Paper
author	Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah Lakner, Christoph
author_facet	Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah Lakner, Christoph
author_sort	Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah
title	The Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Inequality among All Africans
title_short	The Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Inequality among All Africans
title_full	The Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Inequality among All Africans
title_fullStr	The Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Inequality among All Africans
title_full_unstemmed	The Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Inequality among All Africans
title_sort	distribution of consumption expenditure in sub-saharan africa : the inequality among all africans
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/25867448/distribution-consumption-expenditure-sub-saharan-africa-inequality-among-all-africans http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23913
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The Distribution of Consumption Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Inequality among All Africans

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