The Paradox of the Isolated Poor An Empirical View on the Political Economy of Capital City Isolation in Sub-Saharan Africa

孤立的穷人的悖论 撒哈拉以南非洲首都孤立的政治经济学的实证观点

• 批准号: 2098312
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2098312
• 关键词: Paradox; Isolated; Poor; Empirical; View

The alarmingly high level of income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa and its adverse implications for economic development have moved into the focus of economic research on the continent in recent years (International Monetary Fund, 2015; UNDP, 2017). Unfortunately, a lot of the studies investigating inequality on the continent have mainly focused on describing symptoms such as the "high concentration of physical capital, human capital and land (...) in certain groups or regions" (UNDP, 2017: ii) rather than examining their underlying mechanisms. Further, as of today, only a limited number of scholars (see for example Hodler and Raschky (2014) or Addison et al. (2017)) have examined spatial patterns and causes of economic inequality. Yet, most of the articles focus on the `urban-rural bias', are limited to South Africa and overlook other major drivers of spatial inequality (see for example Lehohla and Shabalala (2014)). In this study, I put forward proximity to the capital city as a new dimension of economic inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa and investigate its economic, social and political channels.

近年来，撒哈拉以南非洲地区令人震惊的高收入不平等及其对经济发展的不利影响已成为非洲大陆经济研究的焦点（国际货币基金组织，2015年;开发计划署，2017年）。不幸的是，许多调查非洲大陆不平等的研究主要集中在描述诸如“物质资本、人力资本和土地高度集中”等症状。在某些群体或地区”（开发署，2017年：ii），而不是研究其潜在机制。此外，到目前为止，只有少数学者（例如Hodler和Raschky（2014）或Addison et al.（2017））研究了经济不平等的空间模式和原因。然而，大多数文章侧重于“城乡偏见”，仅限于南非，忽视了空间不平等的其他主要驱动因素（例如，见Lehohla和Shabalala（2014年））。在这项研究中，我提出了接近首都作为一个新的层面的经济不平等在撒哈拉以南非洲地区，并调查其经济，社会和政治渠道。