This paper examines the role institutional quality plays amongst the empirical drivers of
income inequality in Africa. Using a dynamic two‐step difference GMM with robust standard …

Reducing income inequality is a crucial goal of sustainable development as income
inequality often viewed as harmful to economic growth. The main aim of this paper was to …

Over the past two decades, the West African region has experienced much faster economic
growth than other parts of the world. However, despite this economic upturn, the region has …

This study investigates whether there is an institutional quality threshold effect on income
distribution. We employ the dynamic panel threshold model developed by Kremer et …

The first democratic elections in 1994 brought about the promise for equal opportunity and
an overall improvement of living standards for the majority of the South African population …

This paper computed asset-based inequality for 38 African countries in multiple waves,
using over a million household histories, to study why inequality tends to be persistently high …

This article estimates the evolution of income inequality in Africa from 1990 to 2019 by
combining surveys, tax data, and national accounts. Inequality in Africa is very high: the …

While many studies have examined the influence of urbanization on income inequality, the
study on the moderating effect of governance on the relationship between urbanization and …

abstract This study examines whether:(i) the remarkable inflow of Chinese FDI to Africa
matters for bridging the continent's marked income inequality gap,(ii) Africa's institutional …

This paper makes a first attempt to estimate the evolution of income inequality in Africa from
1990 to 2017 by combining surveys, tax data and national accounts in a systematic manner …