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Are better-off-households more unequal or less unequal?.

By: Haddad, Lawrence; Kanbur, Ravi.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Washington : World Bank, 1990Subject(s): Households | Housing -- Poverty. -- Housing -- PovertySummary: Within the framework of intrahousehold bargaining it is argued that-targeting of transfers to disadvantaged members of the household is important. Structural adjustment that favours cash crops over food crops may end up worsening intrahousehold inequality and - as household become better-off, intrahousehold inequality may first increase and then decrease.
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Within the framework of intrahousehold bargaining it is argued that-targeting of transfers to disadvantaged members of the household is important. Structural adjustment that favours cash crops over food crops may end up worsening intrahousehold inequality and - as household become better-off, intrahousehold inequality may first increase and then decrease.

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