Why Has Poverty Increased in Zimbabwe?"Poverty increased in Zimbabwe in all sectors of the economy during the 1990s. This book provides reasons for the increase in poverty using several analytical techniques including nonparametric and parametric statistical methods. This book is part of a series of studies completed under the Poverty Dynamics in Africa Initiative designed to make use of the vastly improved household survey data in Africa. This series intends to enhance understanding of poverty trends in the region, and to frame more successful poverty-reducing policies for the future." |
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1995 distribution Actual 1995 Density Adjusted for 1990 adult-equivalent consumption expenditures agricultural asset ownership capita consumption expenditures changes in returns coefficients communal areas counterfactual density decline in well-being declining returns decompositions Density and Reweighted density-reweighting Difference between Actual distribution of well-being drought Dummy economic ESAP Experiment fiscal deficit Gini coefficient Harare Hdsch2 household attributes household head household well-being human and physical human assets human capital impact increase in poverty individual and household individual attributes investments in human leftward shift Macroeconomic maize Mashonaland East Masvingo Matabeleland North Mean Std nonparametric percent physical assets poverty increased Poverty Indexes poverty line poverty threshold Probability Density Functions rainfall patterns resettlement areas residence returns to assets returns to human Reweighted 1995 Density rural areas sample Scart sector of employment shift in well-being shifts in poverty survey Table urban areas urban household urban poverty Urban Well-Being variable Welfare Densities World Bank Zimbabwe Zimbabwean Δ Δ Δ