Earnings Inequality, Unemployment, and Poverty in the Middle East and North AfricaWassim N. Shahin, Ghassan Dibeh Bloomsbury Academic, 30/04/2000 - 233 من الصفحات The past ten years for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries have registered an extreme deterioration in at least one measure of social and economic welfare: earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty. The combination of slow economic growth, population explosion, and decline in labor productivity led to the reversal of the economic gains achieved during the economic boom in the 1970s. In contrast to that period, growth per capita (GDP) in 1980-1991 for Arab countries was -0.2%. Several indicators point to the extent of the problems faced today by the region's countries. Although the percentage of poverty declined for the majority of the regions in the world in 1985-1990, it has increased in the MENA region. |
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... coefficient of variation and the Gini coefficient are sensitive with regard to the Pigou - Dalton condition of transfer ; i.e. , transfer from a richer person to a poorer person always reduces their value . The standard deviation of ...
... Gini coefficient , the most commonly used index of income inequality , has decreased by over 25 per- cent over the period . Third , at least for the most recent period , the decline in the Gini coefficient is accompanied by a decline in ...
... Gini coefficient and Kuznets ratio moved in the same direction . Nevertheless , because the determinants of these two different indexes of inequality could be quite different , both are employed in the subsequent analysis . It should be ...
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