Inequality of Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Brunori, Paolo; Palmisano, Flaviana; Peragine, Vito

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-7782

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“…Two effects may drive the importance of birthplaces in shaping opportunities. On the one hand, the historical political instability and concentration of political power and economic resources in Ngazidja; on the other hand the port of Ndzouani (the largest one of the archipelago) which favored economic development in the Island (IMF, 2006 andBrunori et al, 2016). Birthplace correlates with a number of unobserved circumstance variables such as family assets and wealth, social services and infrastructure.…”

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“…Mothers' socio-professional category and sector of employment include too many missing observations and were disregarded. 29 SeeBrunori et al (2016) for an analysis of inequality of opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Belhaj Hassine (2011) for inequality of opportunity in labor earnings in Egypt.30 Theil_L is the only inequality measure with a path-independent decomposition, see Appendix 5 for more details.…”

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Comoros Poverty Assessment

Belghith¹,

Takamatsu²,

Harivelo³

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Chapter I-Country Context: Macroeconomic Performance and Governance Environment Key Messages  Economic growth has followed a positive trend since the restoration of political stability, but at a slow pace, and GDP growth was lower than the Sub-Saharan African average and that of many regional peers;  Economic growth is driven by services, followed by agriculture on the supply side, and consumption on the demand side. The development of the industry was held back by structural constraints;  Despite some progress in governance, Comoros continues to trail behind its sub-Saharan and international peers, particularly in terms of transparency and accountability of the public sector.

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Comoros Poverty Assessment

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Takamatsu²,

Harivelo³

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“…Therefore, in an ex post perspective, tracking the outcome of different groups means tracing the group of individuals sitting in the same position of the within tranche distribution. This is done in Brunori et al (2015) by building on the theoretical framework recently introduced by Fleurbaey, et al (2015).…”

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“…In order to deal with this issue, we will proceed with the evaluation of the Ugandan income dynamics by implementing the framework proposed by Brunori et al (2015), which is coherent with the ex post principle of equality of opportunity. This framework consists of two curves: the ex post Opportunity Growth Incidence Curve (ex post OGIC) and the class Opportunity Growth Incidence Curve (class OGIC).…”

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Inequality of opportunity during the great recession in Uganda

Brunori¹,

Palmisano²,

Peragine³

2015

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Typescript prepared by the authors. UNU-WIDER gratefully acknowledges the financial contributions to the research programme from the governments of Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) was established by the United Nations University (UNU) as its first research and training centre and started work in Helsinki, Finland in 1985. The Institute undertakes applied research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the developing and transitional economies, provides a forum for the advocacy of policies leading to robust, equitable and environmentally sustainable growth, and promotes capacity strengthening and training in the field of economic and social policy-making. Work is carried out by staff researchers and visiting scholars in Helsinki and through networks of collaborating scholars and institutions around the world.

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“… The analysis of inequality of opportunity in Uganda is also very limited. The only contribution we are aware of is that by Cogneau and Mesplé‐Somps () and Brunori, Palmisano, and Peragine (). …”

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Consumption dynamics and inequality of opportunity with an application to Uganda

Brunori

Palmisano

Peragine

2017

Review Development Economics

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This paper proposes the adoption of an opportunity egalitarian perspective to assess and compare growth processes and their distributional implications. To this aim, a set of graphical tools are introduced that allow one to evaluate the role of growth and recessions in the evolution of individuals' opportunities over time. These tools satisfy the ex post principle of equality of opportunity and represent an extension of the "opportunity growth incidence curve," a framework proposed by the literature to evaluate growth according to the ex ante principle of equality of opportunity. This measurement framework is applied to evaluate the economic dynamic between 2009 and 2011 in Uganda. The results show that despite a reduction in the real value of household consumption and a surge in outcome inequality, its effects appear to be less dramatic when the ex post equality of opportunity perspective is invoked.

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Inequality of Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 16 publications

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Comoros Poverty Assessment

Comoros Poverty Assessment

Inequality of opportunity during the great recession in Uganda

Consumption dynamics and inequality of opportunity with an application to Uganda

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