A note on poverty, growth, and inequality nexus: evidence from a panel of sub-Saharan African countries

作者：Shoukry Alaa Mohamd; Jabeen Musarrat; Zaman Khalid; Gani Showkat; Aamir Alamzeb

来源：Quality and Quantity, 2018, 52(5): 2173-2195.

DOI：10.1007/s11135-017-0654-9

• Poverty
• Economic growth
• Income inequality
• Pro-equality growth index
• Dynamic panel GMM estimator
• Sub-Saharan Africa

This study investigates the relationship between growth, inequality and poverty in a panel of 42 sub-Saharan African countries by using the latest 13 household surveys, during the period of 1981-2012. The study proposed a relatively new concept of pro-poor growth, which includes both the linear and non-linear growth components in a cross-sectional time series data, called 'Pro-equality Growth Index (PeGI)'. The results confirm the 'negative-linear', 'inverted U-shaped', and 'negative asymptotic U-shaped' relationship between mean survey income and inequality in different model specifications. PeGI confirms the pro-equality growth process during 1984-1987 and 1996-1999 while remaining growth phases confirm the 'anti-equality' growth.

• 出版日期2018-9
• 单位中国人民解放军国防大学