Why has poverty increased in Zimbabwe? /

Poverty in Zimbabwe increased significantly during the 1990s, and it increased in all sectors of the economy. In the middle of the decade, more than 60 percent of Zimbabwean households fell below the national poverty line. There are competing reasons for this: some say it was the result of the gover...

• Main Author: Alwang, Jeffrey R
• Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
• Other Authors: Mills, Bradford F, Taruvinga, Nelson
• Format: Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2002
• Series: Poverty dynamics in Africa
• Subjects: 1990-1996; POBREZA; MODELOS ECONOMETRICOS; DATOS ESTADISTICOS; ZIMBABWE

Table of Contents:

• Abbreviations and acronyms
• Abstract
• Introduction
• 1. Country overview
• 2. Economic change and poverty in the 1990s
• 3. Nonparametric decompositions
• 4. Parametric methods
• 5. Conclusions
• Appendixes
• Notes
• References
• Tables
• Figures