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All that Glitters is not Gold: Polarization Amid Poverty Reduction in Ghana

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dc.contributor.authorClementi, Fabio
dc.contributor.authorMolini, Vasco
dc.contributor.authorSchettino, Francesco
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-25T16:16:40Z
dc.date.available2018-01-25T16:16:40Z
dc.date.issued2018-02
dc.description.abstractGhana is an exceptional case in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) landscape. Together with a handful of other countries, Ghana offers the opportunity to analyze the distributional changes in the past two decades, since four comparable household surveys are available. In addition, unlike many other countries in SSA, Ghana’s rapid growth translated into fast poverty reduction. A closer look at the distributional changes that occurred in the same period, however, suggests less optimism. The present paper develops an innovative methodology to analyze the distributional changes that occurred and their drivers, with a high degree of accuracy and granularity. Looking at the results from 1991 to 2012, the paper documents how the distributional changes over time hollowed out the middle of the Ghanaian household consumption distribution and increased the concentration of households around the highest and lowest deciles; there was a clear surge in polarization indeed. When looking at the drivers of polarization, household characteristics, educational attainment, and access to basic infrastructure all tended to increase over time the size of the upper and lower tails of the consumption distribution and, as a consequence, the degree of polarization.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Development
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/29233
dc.identifier.issn0305-750X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/29233
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.subjectPOLARIZATION
dc.subjectRELATIVE DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectDECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
dc.titleAll that Glitters is not Golden
dc.title.subtitlePolarization Amid Poverty Reduction in Ghanaen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.typeArticle de journalfr
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.associatedcontenthttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X17302498 Journal website (version of record)en
okr.associatedcontenthttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/24839 Working paper version (pre-print)en
okr.crossref.titleAll that Glitters is not Gold: Polarization Amid Poverty Reduction in Ghana
okr.date.disclosure2019-08-07
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.externalcontentExternal Content
okr.identifier.doi10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.07.019
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/29233
okr.identifier.report123220
okr.journal.nbpages275-91
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.countryGhana
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Living Standards
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Assessment
okr.unitPoverty and Equity Global Practice
okr.volume102
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