Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Social accounting: essays in honour of Sir Richard Stone
- 2 A SAM for Europe: social accounts at the regional level revisited
- 3 Interregional SAMs and capital accounts
- 4 Social accounting matrices and income distribution analysis in Kenya
- 5 Structure of the Bangladesh interregional social accounting system: a comparison of alternative decompositions
- 6 Decompositions of regional input–output tables
- 7 Consistency in regional demo-economic models: the case of the northern Netherlands
- 8 A CGE solution to the household rigidity problem in extended input–output models
- 9 Operationalising a rural–urban general equilibrium model using a bi-regional SAM
- 10 Combatting demographic innumeracy with social accounting principles: heterogeneity, selection, and the dynamics of interdependent populations
- 11 A micro-simulation approach to demographic and social accounting
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Social accounting matrices and income distribution analysis in Kenya
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Social accounting: essays in honour of Sir Richard Stone
- 2 A SAM for Europe: social accounts at the regional level revisited
- 3 Interregional SAMs and capital accounts
- 4 Social accounting matrices and income distribution analysis in Kenya
- 5 Structure of the Bangladesh interregional social accounting system: a comparison of alternative decompositions
- 6 Decompositions of regional input–output tables
- 7 Consistency in regional demo-economic models: the case of the northern Netherlands
- 8 A CGE solution to the household rigidity problem in extended input–output models
- 9 Operationalising a rural–urban general equilibrium model using a bi-regional SAM
- 10 Combatting demographic innumeracy with social accounting principles: heterogeneity, selection, and the dynamics of interdependent populations
- 11 A micro-simulation approach to demographic and social accounting
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduction
A large number of studies of income distribution and development have shown that it is difficult to improve living standards of the poorest groups in LDCs, even in cases where aggregate growth has been rapid (see Bigsten, 1983; Sundrum, 1990; World Bank, 1990). To improve our understanding of the relationship between economic change and the incomes of the poor, analyses of poverty issues must be undertaken at a disaggregated level. In response to this need, new analytical tools have been developed while old ones have been refined. One of the most useful of the new tools is the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), developed by Richard Stone and others in the Cambridge Growth Project. The SAM has increasingly been used for income distribution analyses in LDCs (see, e.g., Pyatt and Round, 1977). It can be applied in many ways from simple sectoral descriptions to incorporation in full-blown CGE models. The type of SAM analysis provided here represents a half-way house between partial analyses and a full-scale model.
In this chapter we use the Kenyan SAM of 1976 for income distribution analysis. Another SAM has been constructed for 1986, but unfortunately it is not a proper update of the SAM of 1976. In particular, it is lacking in detail with regard to information on household receipts and outlays. The household sector is in fact not disaggregated at all in the 1986 SAM. It is therefore not possible to repeat the analysis for 1976 for the latter year.
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- Social and Demographic Accounting , pp. 60 - 80Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995