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Urban Rural Poverty Comparisons in Tunisia: A Robust Statistical Approach

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  • Mohamed Ayadi

    (University of Tunis)

  • Mohamed Salah Matoussi
  • Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

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Poverty analysis conducted in Tunisia so far depends heavily upon the choice of poverty lines. The latter are usually constructed by considering a fraction of median incomes. This yields large differentials between urban and rural lines up to a factor 2 leading to the conclusion that the intensity of poverty is more important in the urban area. The policy of poverty alleviation in Tunisia is highly influenced by this result which has no theoretical foundations. In this paper we propose to adopt a more sophisticated approach based on the determination of regional basic needs in order to estimate the differential between urban and rural lines. In order to get stable results we also propose to adopt a robust statistical approach to estimation and testing. This will then enable us to analyze poverty in Tunisia in a robust manner and find that poverty is actually a rural phenomenon.

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  • Mohamed Ayadi & Mohamed Salah Matoussi & Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, 1998. "Urban Rural Poverty Comparisons in Tunisia: A Robust Statistical Approach," Working Papers 9818, Economic Research Forum, revised 11 Dec 1998.
  • Handle: RePEc:erg:wpaper:9818
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    1. Mohamed Ayadi & Mohamed Salah Matoussi & Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, 2001. "Putting Robust Statistical Methods into Practice: Poverty Analysis in Tunisia," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), vol. 137(III), pages 463-482, September.
    2. Samir Ghazouani & Mohamed Goaied, 2001. "The Determinants of Urban and Rural Poverty in Tunisia," Working Papers 0126, Economic Research Forum, revised 09 Jun 2001.

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