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Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa
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In this paper we examine the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven other related living standards indicators. We present the levels of urban–rural differences for several African countries for which we have data and find that living standards in rural areas lag far behind those in urban areas. Then we examine the relative and absolute rates of change for urban and rural areas, and find no overall evidence of declining differences in the gaps between urban and rural living standards. Finally, we conduct urban–rural decompositions of inequality, examining the within versus between (urban and rural) group inequality for asset inequality, education inequality, and health (height) inequality.
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- Authors
- Sahn, D. E.
- Venue
- Journal of African Economics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2003-12-01
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 564-597
- ISSN
- 0963-8024 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-3723
- OpenAlex
- W2129300884
- Cited by
- 230
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 2.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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