Investigating growing inequality in Mozambique

Carlos Gradín () and Finn Tarp

No wp-2017-208, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the long-term trend of consumption inequality in Mozambique. We show that an imbalanced growth path disproportionally benefited the better-off and caused increasing inequality, especially in more recent years, curbing the necessary reduction in poverty. Using a regression decomposition technique, our results suggest that this trend was strongly associated with the higher attained education of household heads and with changes in the structure of the economy (with less workers in the public and subsistence sectors).

Keywords: Inequality; Mozambique; Decomposition; Recentered influence function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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