diff --git a/_drivers-of-inequality-benin.qmd b/_drivers-of-inequality-benin.qmd index 7f4bfed..80ff522 100644 --- a/_drivers-of-inequality-benin.qmd +++ b/_drivers-of-inequality-benin.qmd @@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ the difference in school quality is large, marked by high socio-economic segregation between schools, and primarily determined through an unequal distribution of teaching resources including teachers and textbooks. +Thus, while growth is generally pro-poor in Benin, its primary determinants do not cluster only at the household level, but are comprised of partly household-level but especially community-level differences. + ### Inequalities in access to electricity -Thus, while growth is generally pro-poor in Benin, its primary determinants do not cluster only at the household level, -but are comprised of partly household-level but especially community-level differences. One of the foremost examples of the effects of inequal endowments can have is brought by @VanDePoel2009 when they look at the determinants of rural infant death rates in Benin among others and find that environmental factors --- such as access to a safe water source, quality housing materials and electricity --- are the primary determinants, ahead even of access to a health facility in the community.