Open AccessMeasurement and Decomposition of Consumption Inequality in Pakistan
Author(s) -
Muhammad Idrees,
Eatzaz Ahmad
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the lahore journal of economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1811-5446
pISSN - 1811-5438
DOI - 10.35536/lje.2010.v15.is.a5
Subject(s) - inequality , consumption (sociology) , economics , demographic economics , health care , rural area , agricultural economics , economic growth , mathematics , medicine , sociology , mathematical analysis , social science , pathology
This paper shows that inequality in consumption expenditure inPakistan improved slightly between 1992/93 and 2004/05, and that the extent ofinequality in food consumption has remained substantially lower than in nonfoodconsumption. An important result is that household expenditure on educationhas been more unequally distributed than overall consumption expenditures. Incontrast, healthcare expenditure in urban areas has been distributed relativelymore evenly in recent years, while the level of inequality in healthcareexpenditures in rural areas has remained persistent and somewhat higher.