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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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/devil-details-growth-polarization-and-poverty-reduction-africa-past-two-decades
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/f-clementia
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/m-fabiania
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/v-molinib
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/world-bank
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poverty
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gdp
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/economic-development
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/consumption-patterns
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa