After a decade of slow economic growth Egypt's rate of growth recovered in the late 1990s, averaging more than five percent a year. But the effect of this growth on poverty patterns has not been systematically examined using consistent, comparable household datasets. In this paper, the authors use the rich set of unit-level data from the most recent Egyptian household surveys (1995-96 and 1999-2000) to assess changes in poverty and inequality between...
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2003/06/30
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS3068
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2010/07/01
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Poverty and economic growth in Egypt, 1995-2000
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Expenditure and Consumption Survey