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 …

This paper extends and contributes to the literature on the drivers of income inequality in
West Africa. Principally, it empirically assesses the impact of key domestic and external …

This article empirically analyses the state of inequality in South Africa. International
comparisons show South Africa to be among the most unequal countries in the world. The …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

This paper contributes to the understanding of the long‐run and short‐run drivers of income
inequality in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) and its sub‐regions based on the evidence from …

This paper describes the changes in inequality in South Africa over the post-apartheid
period, using income data from 1993 and 2008. Having shown that the data are comparable …

Africa's poverty challenge is well-known and widely researched. Approximately a third of the
world's poor live in Africa. More recently, evidence shows that inequality may indeed be a …