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

11873_02 Study D2: Poverty, Informal Sector, Health and Labour
- Data show positive relationships between the housing conditions and percapita
income levels, that’s why there is a correlation between the
housing conditions index and poverty status, however the housing index
for the non-poor represents 1.3 times that of the poor for objective
poverty and only 1.02 times for subjective poverty.
- The overall average Living Standard Index in 2002 has reached 28.55. As
with most social indicators, there are urban/rural biases in favor of urban
areas.
- Male headed households have higher living standards than female headed
households, and households with a head of lower education levels have
lower living standards, and the same applies if the household head is
unemployed or out of labor force.
- Poor households, whether objectively or subjectively, have lower living
standards than the non-poor do. However, households with unmet needs
or those who are unsatisfied with their lives have a lower index,
indicating that people rightly rank themselves as satisfied or not
according to their living conditions and not only on their income.
- Although both the non-traditional government programs and nongovernment
sector’s role are expanding their poverty alleviation role in
Egypt, certain government policies continue to impede such efforts and
underpin the perpetuation of poverty across generations, such as
centralization, lack of coordination, spread of corruption and weak
institutional capacities.
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