“Detecting inequality depends on how you measure it.”
Samuel Tetteh-Baah recently defended his doctoral dissertation, titled, "Measurement and impact of horizontal inequality", at the Chair of Development Economics. In an interview, he tells more about his findings.
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Extreme poverty has decreased worldwide in the last three decades. What about income inequality? In most African countries, inequalities in welfare levels between different spatial, ethnic, gender and religious groups – known as horizontal inequalities – also appear to have gone down substantially over time, as Samuel Tetteh-Baah’s recent doctoral research shows. But this is not the end of the story. In the following interview, the economist explains why a lot depends on how you measure inequality.