This paper uses a set of national household surveys to study the regional Sub-Saharan Africa distribution of consumption expenditure among individuals during 1993 to 2008. The analysis puts the disparities in living standards that exist among persons in Africa into context with the disparities that exist within and between African countries. Regional interpersonal inequality has increased (from a Gini index of 52 percent in 1993 to 56 percent in 2008), driven by increasing disparities in living standards across countries, while there has been no systematic increase in within-country inequality. For the African distribution as a whole, growth of consumption expenditure (from household surveys) has been low (around 1 percent per year). This growth has been uneven and as a result the richest 5 percent of Africans received around 40 percent of the total gains, while the bottom third stagnated.

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撒哈拉以南非洲的消费支出分布：所有非洲人之间的不平等

本文使用一组全国住户调查来研究 1993 年至 2008 年期间撒哈拉以南非洲地区个人消费支出的分布。该分析将非洲人之间存在的生活水平差异与内部存在的差异联系起来。以及非洲国家之间。由于国家间生活水平差距的扩大，地区人际不平等有所增加（从 1993 年的 52% 的基尼指数上升到 2008 年的 56%），而国内的不平等并没有系统性地增加。就整个非洲分布而言，消费支出（来自家庭调查）的增长一直很低（每年约 1%）。