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Etudes par pays volume 2, PDF, 346 p., 1,4 Mo - Femise

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11873_02 Study D2: Poverty, Informal Sector, Health and Labour<br />

3.4. Phenomenology<br />

According to poverty measures of El-Laithy presented in Table-1, poverty 12<br />

has increased on both national and regional level between 1981/82 and<br />

1990/91, then stabilized in 1995/96 and then started to decline in 1999/00.<br />

However, it is noticed also that the Gini coefficient increased during<br />

1999/00 com<strong>par</strong>ed to 1995/96.<br />

How could this contradiction of decline in poverty and increase in the Gini<br />

coefficient be explained?<br />

At the national level the growth was not pro-poor, thus the non-poor<br />

benefited more than the poor did from the growth. Correspondingly, the<br />

Gini coefficient increased from 34.5 to 37.8 13 .<br />

Table 1 - Regional Poverty Measures (1981/82-1999/00)<br />

Region Year<br />

FONDAZIONE CENSIS<br />

Lower Poverty Line Upper Poverty Line<br />

P0 P1 P2 P0 P1 P2<br />

All Egypt 1981/82 16.42 3.77 1.23 23.65 6.04 2.23 -<br />

1990/91 30.37 8.62 3.36 39.09 11.99 5.03 -<br />

1995/96 29.25 5.79 1.58 42.46 10.13 3.32 34.5<br />

1999/00 16.74 2.97 0.8 37.8<br />

All Urban 1981/82 16.75 4.25 1.52 25.99 7.26 2.88 34.8<br />

1990/91 26.06 6.59 2.28 36.82 10.58 4.15 34.8<br />

1995/96 29.03 6.48 1.95 42.87 11.67 4.24 33.7<br />

All Rural 1981/82 16.60 3.20 0.87 22.95 4.89 1.49 25.8<br />

1990/91 34.12 10.97 4.90 41.25 13.88 6.45 36.6<br />

1995/96 29.00 5.59 1.52 41.87 9.28 2.89 24.9<br />

Source: El-Laithy (1999, 2002)<br />

12 Named P0.<br />

13 WB, Op.cit., p.19<br />

Gini<br />

Index<br />

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