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Robust Estimates of Changes in Poverty and Inequality in Post-Independence Namibia

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  • Sebastian Levine

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    (UNDP)

  • Benjamin Roberts

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    (Human Sciences Research Council)

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The authors estimate changes in the distribution of household consumption expenditure in Namibia since Independence in 1990 and the effects on poverty. To produce comparability between two household surveys, they use survey matching techniques and apply the framework of stochastic dominance to test the robustness of the results. The results reveal a significant decrease in the poverty headcount over the period and small but insignificant decreases in the country?s extremely high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in mean incomes rather than redistribution. Even so, there have been important changes in inequality, especially between different social groups, as educational attainment has replaced ethnicity as the main determinant of inequality between groups. (?)

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Paper provided by International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth in its series Working Papers with number 102.

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Length: 28
Date of creation: Dec 2012
Publication status: Published by UNDP - International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth , December 2012, pages 1-28
Handle: RePEc:ipc:wpaper:102
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Cited by:

  1. Carlos Pestana Barros & Otavio Henrique dos Santos Figueiredo & Peter Fernades Wanke, 2016. "Peasants’ Poverty and Inequality in Angola," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 128(2), pages 751-761, September.
  2. Sebastian Levine & Benjamin Roberts, 2012. "Inequality in Post-Independence Namibia: the Unfinished Agenda," One Pager 186, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.

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