Inside Inequality in Arab Republic of Egypt: Historical Trends, the Spatial Dimension and People’s Perceptions

This part looks at the Arab Republic of Egypt’s inequality in the global context and spatial inequality across urban and rural areas and across Egypt’s governorates. Section 1 compares the values of inequality for Egypt to those of similar countries across the world and across the Middle East and North Africa region. Sections 2 and 3 describe and analyze, respectively, the urban-rural gap (mean income in the urban areas vs. mean income in the rural areas) and interpersonal inequalities in urban and rural areas. This is done for 2005, the year for which the data from the household survey are available in full. This static picture is complemented by the analysis in section 3 where we focus on the changes that have occurred over the period 2005–09. For 2009, we use a random sample (25 percent) drawn from the full household survey for that year, given that the full survey data are not available. Finally, section 4 looks at convergence or divergence of mean urban and rural governorate incomes.

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Inside the book: Spacial Inequality. Chapter 2, pp. 37-54 by Branko Milanovic