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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... changes in both the Gini coefficients and Kuznets ratios as indexes of inequality and indexes of poverty and then comparing the two sets of results . In each case , the overall changes are disaggregated into various components , such as ...
... change contributes more than 100 percent of the total decline . This influence is supplemented by very small contributions to the reduction in LOGGINI by the changes in HEDUC1 , HEDUC4 , and NOSEWRVR . The increasing urbanization rate ...
... changes for any household group primarily depend on the combined effects of changes in the prices of factors it controls and com- modities it consumes . As expected , the incomes of agricultural labor and resources decline sig ...
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