Measuring the Middle Class in Africa - Income Versus Assets Approach
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F20%3A73605214" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/20:73605214 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/26482789:_____/20:N0000036
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002039720916087" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002039720916087</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002039720916087" target="_blank" >10.1177/0002039720916087</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Measuring the Middle Class in Africa - Income Versus Assets Approach
Original language description
Traditionally, economists measure middle class from the income perspective. Considering quality of data for many African countries, relying solely on income may, unfortunately, lead to an incorrect picture. This article compares and analyses the African middle class measured by income and by ownership of assets. Results indicate that middle class sizes differ significantly in some countries, while in others they are more or less the same. Regression analyses performed to investigate potential correlates of the African income and assets middle class sizes indicate that the African assets middle class size is positively associated with income per capita and negatively with assets inequality. To a lesser extent, it is positively affected by education and negatively by ethnic fractionalisation. The African income middle class size depends positively on income per capita and education, while negatively on income inequality.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Africa Spectrum
ISSN
0002-0397
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
55
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
30
Pages from-to
3-32
UT code for WoS article
000542089600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85084513329