Home-grown and grassroots-based strategies for determining inequality towards policy action: Rwanda's Ubudehe approach in perspective

Chika Ezeanya

No wp-2015-008, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Survey-based tools for determining inequality in Africa south of the Sahara have been critiqued for being too expensive, and oftentimes unsuitable to the realities of the region. The need for a reliable alternative for determining wealth distribution, from which data can be generated for policy action, has been a challenge. Rwanda, however, using the Ubudehe community-based practice has been able to determine household inequality across the nation. Data generated through Ubudehe has been used in policy-making, including in the key health and education sectors.

Keywords: Economic policy; Equality and inequality; Household survey; Quantitative research methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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