Intra-household inequalities, inequality and poverty in Senegal
Résumé
This paper uses a novel survey to re
-examine inequality levels in Senegal. Using consumption data
collected at a relatively disaggregated level within households, it first underlines that consumption
inequality in this country is likely to be much higher that what is commonly thought, w
ith a Gini index
reaching 0.53. This paper also
reveal
s the extent of within household consumption inequalities. We
show that within household inequality accounts for as much as 15% of total inequality in Senegal. One
of the consequences of such unequal re
partition of resources within households is the potential
existence of “invisible poor” in households classified as non
-poor. Our assessment is that as many as
12.5% of the poor individuals live in non-
poor households. In total,
our results suggest that th
e more
complex the household structure, the bigger the household size, the more inequality is likely to be
underestimated when computed using standard consumption surveys.
Domaines
Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]
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