Two Decades of Rising Inequality and Declining Poverty in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Warr, Peter; Rasphone, Sitthiroth; Menon, Jayant | November 2015
Abstract
Over the last 2 decades the Gini coefficient for expenditure in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic has
risen from 0.311 to 0.364, even though absolute poverty incidence has halved. When the data is decomposed
into rural and urban areas, or by the ethnicity of the household head, the increase in inequality within
groups dominates any changes between groups; indeed, inequality has increased throughout the country.
In contrast, access to publicly provided services has become more equal.
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Warr, Peter; Rasphone, Sitthiroth; Menon, Jayant. 2015. Two Decades of Rising Inequality and Declining Poverty in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/5253. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
2313-6537 (Print), 2313-6545 (e-ISSN)
Keywords
Poverty Analysis
Participatory Poverty Assessment
Poverty Reduction Strategy
Extreme Poverty
Economic development
Growth And Poverty
Income Distribution
Demographic Indicators
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