Economic Inequality in the Arab Region

Nadia Belhaj Hassine

World Development, 2015, vol. 66, issue C, 532-556

Abstract: The paper assesses the levels and determinants of economic inequality in 12 Arab countries using harmonized household survey micro-data. It focuses on the sources of rural–urban, as well as metropolitan–nonmetropolitan, inequalities.

Keywords: inequality; unconditional quantile regression decomposition; Arab countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.09.011

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