Inequality in Africa

Income inequality in Africa - African Development Bank Group

However, Africa remains overwhelmed by unequal income and wealth distribution. The poor performances, in terms of reducing inequality, are not specific to ...

Closing Africa's wealth gap | Africa Renewal - the United Nations

Disappointingly, 10 of the world's 19 most unequal countries are in sub-Saharan Africa. Economic inequality, sometimes referred to as income inequality, is the ...

What's new about inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2023? - WID

The 2023 update of the World Inequality Database confirms that income inequality remains very high in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Background-Paper-Inequality-In-Africa.pdf - Policy Center

Income inequalities in Africa are high. In 2021, according to the World Inequality Database, the share of the top 10% cluster on the African continent accounted ...

East Africa: extreme inequality in numbers | Oxfam International

The region continues to have high levels of inequality. Wealth is increasingly concentrating in the hands of a tiny few, while a majority are struggling to ...

Income inequality in Africa, 1990–2019: Measurement, patterns ...

Inequality in Africa is very high: the regional top 10% income share nears 55%, on par with regions characterized by extreme inequality, such as Latin America ...

Unveiling inequality of opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Our research reveals that inequality of opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa is more pronounced than previously estimated.

Income inequality in Africa, 1990-2017

One issue is that analyses on African inequality lev- els are typically made on the basis of household surveys, which provide a rich set of socio-economic ...

Why is inequality high in Africa? - African Development Bank Group

Previous attempts based on cross-country panel data indicate ethnic fractionalization as a robust determinant of income inequality in Africa (Milanovic, 2003).

Six Charts Explain South Africa's Inequality

South Africa suffers among the highest levels of inequality in the world when measured by the commonly used Gini index. Inequality manifests ...

A Tale of Two Continents: Fighting inequality in Africa - Oxfam

This paper uses the Reducing Inequality Index (CRI) developed by. Oxfam and Development Finance to produce a ranking of African countries on ...

Poverty, inequality and wealth in Africa - statistics & facts - Statista

Indeed, South Africa, Namibia, and Zambia had the highest income inequality in the world, with a Gini coefficient of nearly 63, 59, and 58 ...

Combating inequality in Africa | Africa Renewal - the United Nations

Many Africans think that inequalities are widening, with a small slice of the population getting richer as the ranks of the poor keep growing.

Financial development and income inequality in Africa - Nature

This study empirically examines how financial development affects income inequality in Africa. Financial development dimensions, access, depth, efficiency, and ...

Poverty, Inequality and Africa's Education Crisis - Brookings Institution

Only about half of sub-Saharan Africa's 128 million school-aged children currently attending school are likely to acquire the basic skills needed for them to ...

Inequality Regimes in Africa from Pre-Colonial Times to the Present

Enslaved people, slave-produced commodities, and control over trade routes were key sources of wealth and inequality during this wave. The main ...

New World Bank Report Assesses Sources of Inequality in Five ...

South Africa, the largest country in SACU, is the most unequal country in the world, ranking first among 164 countries in the World Bank's global poverty ...

Income Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa

Indeed, 10 of the 19 most unequal countries globally are in SSA and seven outlier African countries are driving this inequality. Between. 1991 and 2011, a clear ...

Understanding the drivers of inequality in Africa and implications for ...

This report analyzes persistent and cumulative disparities in human development, as well as a new generation of inequalities that are largely spurred by ...

Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: dimensions and drivers - UNESCO

There is broad agreement that the average economic inequality in sub-Saharan Africa is the highest in the world after Latin America (Milanovic, 2003, p. 10; ADB ...