Investigating inequality trends in Africa: ACEIR research and the WIID

Martin Wittenberg and Murray Leibbrandt

No wp-2023-102, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Work done by the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) has documented the many-faceted nature of inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely high (in South Africa). Trying to tell one coherent story about African inequality, however, is difficult. The construction of comparable measures across countries and across time runs into the problem that data quality varies across instruments.

Keywords: Inequality measurement; Ghana; Kenya; South Africa; WIID (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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