Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/210844 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CREDIT Research Paper No. 18/06
Publisher: 
The University of Nottingham, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT), Nottingham
Abstract: 
Over the past two decades consumption inequality has risen within Laos, while absolute poverty incidence halved. The estimated Gini coefficient of private household expenditures per person rose from 0.311 to 0.364. This increase in the sample-based estimate of inequality was statistically significant and occurred in all regions, in both rural and urban areas and among all major ethnic, educational and sectoral employment categories. Within-group increases in inequality dominated between-group changes, but official policy largely overlooks this point, focusing on reducing inequality between, rather than within major groups. This assessment argues that economic inequality should become a more pressing policy concern.
Subjects: 
Expenditure inequality
poverty reduction
Gini coefficient
Laos
JEL: 
D31
D39
I39
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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