Rethinking the measurement of the middle class: Evidence from Egypt

Arbeitspapier

The degree of choice households have over their consumption expenditure is critical in deciding their economic class. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and assess their well-being in the period 1995-2011. Our findings show that if economic growth is pro-poor and inclusive, more people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates and decline in the size of the middle class since 2005 indicates that the growth process in Egypt was anti-poor and anti-middle class.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-908-4
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2015/023

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Economic Methodology
• Thema: consumption expenditure ; inequality ; measurement ; middle class ; poverty

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Abu-Ismail, Khalid ; Sarangi, Niranjan
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2015/908-4
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/126348
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ