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Intra-household inequalities, inequality and poverty in Senegal

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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.
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hal-01608927 , version 1 (05-06-2020)

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Sylvie Lambert, Philippe de Vreyer. Intra-household inequalities, inequality and poverty in Senegal. WP DIAL, 2017. ⟨hal-01608927⟩
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