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Income Inequality and Poverty in
South East Asia and Sub-Saharan
Africa : A Comparison Study
Prepared By Juita Mohamad
For the UNU 2008 Course
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Introduction
SEA ± succeeded in promoting economicgrowth, attracting FDI, export oriented policies,decreasing poverty level, rising income
inequality
SSA ± failed in promoting economic growthvia agriculture, creating jobs, import
substitution policy, increasing numbers of those under poverty level, decreasing incomeinequality
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GINI Index For SSA and SEA
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Poverty Headcount For SSA andSEA
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Hypothesis
In SSA countries, income inequality is
decreasing while poverty level is increasing or
failed to decreased?
This is the other way around for SEA countries
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R esearch Questions
Why is SEA failing in decreasing poverty level
Why is the wage inequality level decreasing in
SEA Why is it very different from SEA countries?
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Literature R eview
Economic Policies and External Performance
in South East Asia and Sub Saharan Africa,
Aryeety, E. et al.
R esource Exports and R esource Processing for
Export in SEA, Sundaram, J., R ock, M.
Primary Exports and Primary Processing for
Export in Sub Saharan Africa, Lyakurwa, W.
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Chapter 4, Globalization and Inequality, World Bank
R eport 2007b.World Bank
Globalization, Poverty and Inequality in Sub Saharan
Africa: A Political Economy Appraisal, Tsikata, MYvonne
Poverty and Inequality in the New World: Moving
forward or Backward?, Dollar, D.
Assessing the Impact of One Aspect of Globalization
on Economic Growth in Africa, Baliamoune, M
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Data
Sub Saharan side- Cote d¶Ivoire, Ghana,
Kenya, Mauritius, NigeriaTanzania, Uganda,
Zambia
South East Asian Side ± 10 ASEAN countries
Human Development R eports, UNDP
World Income Inequality Database World Development Indicators
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Methodology
R egression will be used to determine the relationship
and strength between GINI index and poverty level
index
Literature review will provide reasoning for such pattern
Comparison between these two areas will be
undergone looking into the expect of economic
activities, historical background and government
policies to determine the reason for hypothesis
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Projected Outcome
R easons for the hypothesis for SSA countries:
Initial Conditions and Endowments
External Performance and Scope of Globalization
Internal Conditions and External Environments
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