Is Poverty in Africa mostly chronic or transient ? evidence from synthetic panel data

Hai-Anh H. Dang, Andrew L. Dabalen, Hai-Anh H. Dang and Andrew L. Dabalen
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No 8033, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: Absent actual panel household survey data, this paper constructs, for the first time, synthetic panel data for more than 20 countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this process, the analysis employs repeated cross sections that span, on average, a six-year period for each country. The analysis suggests that all these countries as a whole have had pro-poor growth. One-third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which is larger than the proportion of the population that fell into poverty in the same period. The region also saw a 9 percent reduction in poverty and a 28 percent increase in the size of the middle class. However, chronic poverty remains high, and a considerable proportion of the population is vulnerable to falling into poverty. There is some limited evidence that most resource-rich and middle-income countries have more upward mobility than downward mobility. Post-secondary education is especially strongly associated with higher upward mobility and less downward mobility, which holds to some extent for female-headed and urban households.

Keywords: Inequality; Poverty Lines; Small Area Estimation Poverty Mapping; Poverty Monitoring&Analysis; Poverty Impact Evaluation; Poverty Assessment; Poverty Diagnostics; Educational Sciences; Economic Growth; Economic Theory&Research; Industrial Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-04-20
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