Inside inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt : facts and perceptions across people, time, and space / Paolo Verme, Branko Milanovic, Sherine Al-Shawarby Sahar El Tawila, May Gadallah and Enas Ali A. El-Majeed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verme, Paolo.

Contributor:

World Bank.

Series:

World Bank studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--Egypt.

Income distribution.

Equality--Egypt.

Equality.

Poverty--Egypt.

Poverty.

Egypt--Economic conditions--1981-.

Egypt.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 124 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : The World Bank, [2014]

Summary:

Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt: Facts and Perceptions Across People, Time, and Space comprises four papers prepared in the framework of the Egypt inequality study financed by the World Bank. The first paper, by Sherine Al-Shawarby, reviews the studies on inequality in Egypt since the 1950s with the double objective of illustrating the importance attributed to inequality through time and of presenting and compare the main published statistics on inequality. The second paper, by Branko Milanovic, turns to the global and spatial dimensions of inequality. The Egyptian society remains deeply divided across space and in terms of welfare, and this study unveils some of the hidden features of this inequality. The third paper, by Paolo Verme, studies facts and perceptions of inequality during the 2000-2009 period, which preceded the Egyptian revolution. The fourth paper, by Sahar El Tawila, May Gadallah, and Enas Ali A.El-Majeed, assesses the state of poverty and inequality among the poorest villages of Egypt. The paper attempts to explain the level of inequality in an effort to disentangle those factors that derive from household abilities from those factors that derive from local opportunities. Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt provides some initial elements that could explain the apparent mismatch between inequality measured with household surveys and inequality aversion measured by values surveys. This is a particularly important and timely topic to address in light of the unfolding developments in the Arab region. The book should be of interest to any observer of the political and economic evolution of the Arab region in the past few years and to poverty and inequality specialists interested in a deeper understanding of the distribution of incomes in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. World Bank Studies are available individually or on standing order. The World Bank Studies series is also available online through the Open Knowledge Repository (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/) and the World Bank e-Library (www.worldbank.org/elibrary). Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Measurement of Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt: A Historical Survey 13

Introduction 13

The Changing Importance of Inequality in the Economic Literature 14

Measures and Data 15

Evolution of Inequality 18

Conclusion 30

Notes 31

References 32

Chapter 2 Spatial Inequality 37

Introduction 37

Egypt Inequality in the Global Context 38

Urban-Rural Gap in Egypt in 2005 41

Interpersonal Inequality in Rural and Urban Areas 44

Evolution of Real Incomes and Inequality between 2005 and 2009 47

Income Convergence or Divergence within Urban and Rural Governorates 51

Conclusions 53

Notes 54

Chapter 3 Facts and Perceptions of Inequality 55

Introduction 55

Inequality and Inequality Perceptions in Theory and Empirics 57

Data Quality 59

The Distributions of Income and Expenditure 68

Inequality in Income and Expenditure 73

Drivers of Inequality 76

Micro Data Vs. Macro Data 78

Perceptions of inequality and Its Correlates 80

Summary and Conclusions 95

References 98

Notes 99

Chapter 4 Poverty and Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt's Poorest Villages 101

Introduction 101

The Government of Egypt Initiative to Develop the Poorest 1,000 Villages and Related M&E System 102

Poverty in the Poorest Villages of Egypt 105

Inequality in the Poorest Villages in Egypt 107

The Conceptual Framework and Methodology 110

Results 114

Discussion and Policy Recommendations 120

Annex 121

Notes 122

References 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781464801990

1464801991

1464801983

9781464801983

OCLC:

871037139