Poverty and Economic Growth in Egypt, 1995–2000

Abstract

After a decade of slow economic growth Egypt's rate of age composition of poor households. The results show growth recovered in the late 1990s, averaging more than that average household expenditures rose in the second five percent a year. But the effect of this growth on half of the 1990s and the poverty rate fell from 20 poverty patterns has not been systematically examined percent to less than 17 percent. But, in addition to the using consistent, comparable household datasets. In this ongoing divide in the urban-rural standard of living, a paper El-Laithy, Lokshin, and Banerji use the rich set of new geographicaUlregional divide emerged in the late unit-level data from the most recent Egyptian household 1990s. Poverty was found predominantly among lesssurveys (1995-96 and 1999-2000) to assess changes in educated individuals, particularly those working in poverty and inequality between 1995 and 2000. Their agriculture and construction, and among seasonal and analysis is based on household-specific poverty lines that occasional workers. These groups could suffer the most account for the differences in regional prices, as well as from the slowing economic growth evident after 1999differences in the consumption preferences and size and 2000.This paper-a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the impact of economic growth on poverty. Copies of the paper are available free from the World Bank, 1818

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