Rental Regulation and its Consequences on Measures of Well-Being in the Arab Republic of Egypt
The paper delves into the implications of a failure to account for rental regulation in the measurement of households' welfare, poverty, and inequality when using household surveys. Exploiting previously unavailable data for the Egyptian case,...
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okr-10986-279592021-06-08T14:42:48Z Rental Regulation and its Consequences on Measures of Well-Being in the Arab Republic of Egypt Lara Ibarra, Gabriel Mendiratta, Vibhuti Vishwanath, Tara WELL-BEING WELFARE DYNAMICS RENTAL REGULATION INEQUALITY URBAN HOUSING URBAN POVERTY POVERTY MEASUREMENT The paper delves into the implications of a failure to account for rental regulation in the measurement of households' welfare, poverty, and inequality when using household surveys. Exploiting previously unavailable data for the Egyptian case, the paper illustrates the long-lasting distortions in the rental market that the 1977 rental law has created. The paper finds evidence that earlier studies may have substantially underestimated households’ welfare in urban areas and overestimated urban poverty. National poverty rates show smaller corrections, as poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon in the Arab Republic of Egypt. An appropriate measure of welfare also led to downward corrections in inequality in urban Egypt, while increasing the inequality across regions. These effects counterbalance each other and nationwide inequality estimates are affected only slightly. 2017-08-24T20:07:20Z 2017-08-24T20:07:20Z 2017-07 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/224491500557651807/Rental-regulation-and-its-consequences-on-measures-of-well-being-in-the-Arab-Republic-of-Egypt http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27959 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8152 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Middle East and North Africa Egypt, Arab Republic of |
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WELL-BEING WELFARE DYNAMICS RENTAL REGULATION INEQUALITY URBAN HOUSING URBAN POVERTY POVERTY MEASUREMENT Lara Ibarra, Gabriel Mendiratta, Vibhuti Vishwanath, Tara Rental Regulation and its Consequences on Measures of Well-Being in the Arab Republic of Egypt |
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The paper delves into the implications
of a failure to account for rental regulation in the
measurement of households' welfare, poverty, and
inequality when using household surveys. Exploiting
previously unavailable data for the Egyptian case, the paper
illustrates the long-lasting distortions in the rental
market that the 1977 rental law has created. The paper finds
evidence that earlier studies may have substantially
underestimated households’ welfare in urban areas and
overestimated urban poverty. National poverty rates show
smaller corrections, as poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon
in the Arab Republic of Egypt. An appropriate measure of
welfare also led to downward corrections in inequality in
urban Egypt, while increasing the inequality across regions.
These effects counterbalance each other and nationwide
inequality estimates are affected only slightly. |
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Working Paper |
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Lara Ibarra, Gabriel Mendiratta, Vibhuti Vishwanath, Tara |
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Lara Ibarra, Gabriel Mendiratta, Vibhuti Vishwanath, Tara |
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Lara Ibarra, Gabriel |
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Rental Regulation and its Consequences on Measures of Well-Being in the Arab Republic of Egypt |
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Rental Regulation and its Consequences on Measures of Well-Being in the Arab Republic of Egypt |
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Rental Regulation and its Consequences on Measures of Well-Being in the Arab Republic of Egypt |
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Rental Regulation and its Consequences on Measures of Well-Being in the Arab Republic of Egypt |
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Rental Regulation and its Consequences on Measures of Well-Being in the Arab Republic of Egypt |
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rental regulation and its consequences on measures of well-being in the arab republic of egypt |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2017 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/224491500557651807/Rental-regulation-and-its-consequences-on-measures-of-well-being-in-the-Arab-Republic-of-Egypt http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27959 |
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