Dynamics of poverty, inequality and economic growth in subsaharian africa: an investigation applied to the case of Niger

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In Niger, the recorded macroeconomic good performances, consecutively to the implementation of the strategic document of reduction of poverty, ask the question of their impact compared to the evolution of the inequality and poverty. This research proposes to analyze specificities of dynamic of inequality and poverty inherent in the new development process, from household surveys between 2005 and 2007/2008. Initially, the analysis, in comparative statics, indicates a light fall of the monetary deprivations in Niger. However, some disparities seem to prevail between the rural areas urban areas. Overall, the distribution of the expenditure is not unequal, and the process of economic growth turns pro-poor in Niger, except in the capital where the growth seems to be pro-rich. The second time, the taking into account of the heterogeneity of poverty, through the distinction between poverty chronic and transient, in relation to the vulnerability, specifies more the apprehension of the deprivat

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