Polarization and Its Discontents : Morocco Before and After the Arab Spring
This paper uses data obtained from three Moroccan household surveys that took place between 2000 to 2013, to address issues related to the so-called "Arab puzzle." Welfare inequalities are low and declining in Arab countries and exist aga...
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okr-10986-326582022-09-19T12:17:15Z Polarization and Its Discontents : Morocco Before and After the Arab Spring Clementi, Fabio Khan, Haider A. Molini, Vasco Schettino, Francesco Soudi, Khalid POLARIZATION PERCEPTIONS SUBJECTIVE MEASURES ABSOLUTE MEASURES HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INEQUALITY INCOME DISTRIBUTION POVERTY HOUSEHOLD WELLBEING This paper uses data obtained from three Moroccan household surveys that took place between 2000 to 2013, to address issues related to the so-called "Arab puzzle." Welfare inequalities are low and declining in Arab countries and exist against the backdrop of a growing sense of dissatisfaction and frustration. The paper hypothesizes that welfare inequality plays a role, if seen through the lens of absolute measures and notably absolute polarization. The paper argues that the relatively worse perception of poor, vulnerable, and lower middle-class Moroccan households mirrors the ongoing hollowing out of the welfare distribution process and its concentration in the tails. The results of a multi-logit regression indicate that polarization is significantly correlated to perception and, importantly, that this correlation is asymmetric. The poorer are the households, the more polarization is perceived to link negatively to the well-being of households; and the richer are the households, the more polarization will positively correlate with their perceived well-being. The results are robust to the use of classes or quintiles for ranking social groups from the poorest to the richest. 2019-11-21T17:11:16Z 2019-11-21T17:11:16Z 2019-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/711411572275750555/Polarization-and-Its-Discontents-Morocco-before-and-after-the-Arab-Spring http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32658 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9049 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 Morocco |
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POLARIZATION PERCEPTIONS SUBJECTIVE MEASURES ABSOLUTE MEASURES HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INEQUALITY INCOME DISTRIBUTION POVERTY HOUSEHOLD WELLBEING Clementi, Fabio Khan, Haider A. Molini, Vasco Schettino, Francesco Soudi, Khalid Polarization and Its Discontents : Morocco Before and After the Arab Spring |
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This paper uses data obtained from three
Moroccan household surveys that took place between 2000 to
2013, to address issues related to the so-called "Arab
puzzle." Welfare inequalities are low and declining in
Arab countries and exist against the backdrop of a growing
sense of dissatisfaction and frustration. The paper
hypothesizes that welfare inequality plays a role, if seen
through the lens of absolute measures and notably absolute
polarization. The paper argues that the relatively worse
perception of poor, vulnerable, and lower middle-class
Moroccan households mirrors the ongoing hollowing out of the
welfare distribution process and its concentration in the
tails. The results of a multi-logit regression indicate that
polarization is significantly correlated to perception and,
importantly, that this correlation is asymmetric. The poorer
are the households, the more polarization is perceived to
link negatively to the well-being of households; and the
richer are the households, the more polarization will
positively correlate with their perceived well-being. The
results are robust to the use of classes or quintiles for
ranking social groups from the poorest to the richest. |
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Clementi, Fabio Khan, Haider A. Molini, Vasco Schettino, Francesco Soudi, Khalid |
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Clementi, Fabio Khan, Haider A. Molini, Vasco Schettino, Francesco Soudi, Khalid |
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Clementi, Fabio |
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Polarization and Its Discontents : Morocco Before and After the Arab Spring |
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Polarization and Its Discontents : Morocco Before and After the Arab Spring |
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Polarization and Its Discontents : Morocco Before and After the Arab Spring |
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Polarization and Its Discontents : Morocco Before and After the Arab Spring |
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Polarization and Its Discontents : Morocco Before and After the Arab Spring |
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polarization and its discontents : morocco before and after the arab spring |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/711411572275750555/Polarization-and-Its-Discontents-Morocco-before-and-after-the-Arab-Spring http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32658 |
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