Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
981922 Procedia Economics and Finance 2013 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

This paper provides an analysis of monetary poverty in Senegal. Poverty is estimated not through national but regional poverty thresholds. We present the methodological tools necessary for the understanding of the dynamics of poverty with the generic formula of poverty indices proposed by Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (1984) in order to estimate and analyze poverty in Senegal from 2002 to 2006. Starting over, and assuming the existence of disparities notorious variation of poverty, we explore the sectoral decomposition of poverty changes depending on the geographic location using the decomposition method proposed by Ravallion, Huppi (1991). It is used for the assessment of the contribution of potential explanatory factors of differences in poverty. The obtained results reveal at first that the disparities in poverty show the non-irrelevance of the use of a single threshold in Senegal. Then, they suggest lowering the monetary poverty in the national domain, but with strong disparities between regions and stabilization of the poverty inequality during a studied period. And finally, the effect of the changes of the localization of the population contributes to increase the poverty in certain regions and in the global poverty.

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