Poverty in Africa : analytical and policy perspectives

xviii, 504 p. S.

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Part I. Introduction""; ""1. Poverty in Africa: An Overview""; ""Context and scope""; ""Organization of the book""; ""Summary and overall findings""; ""Part II. Identification and Measurement of Poverty""; ""2. Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice""; ""Introduction""; ""Poverty lines in theory""; ""Objective poverty lines""; ""Subjective poverty lines""; ""Poverty lines found in practice""; ""Conclusions""

""3. The State of Rural Poverty, Income Distribution and Rural Development in SSA""""Introduction""; ""The rural sector in SSA: A profile""; ""Factors influencing SSA rural sector development path""; ""Conclusions and some policy implications""; ""4. Poverty, Inequality, and Economic Well-Being: African Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective""; ""Introduction""; ""Inequality""; ""Poverty""; ""Economic well-being""; ""Conclusions""; ""5. Poverty Analysis within a General Equilibrium Framework""; ""Introduction""; ""Social accounting, income distribution and poverty""

""The overall conceptual framework""""Classification and disaggregation of accounts""; ""Data requirements in the construction of a SAM""; ""SAM multiplier analysis and application to an African archetype economy""; ""General equilibrium models, income distribution and poverty""; ""Income distribution, poverty and poverty measurement""; ""Model description""; ""Simulation results""; ""Simulation 2: Import tariff reform""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part III. Poverty and Economic Reform""; ""6. Adjustment, Income Distribution and Poverty in Africa: A Research Guide""; ""The evolution of the debate""

""Methodological issues""""The evidence on SAPs and poverty in Africa""; ""Protecting the poor in SAPs""; ""Summary and conclusion""; ""7. Gender, Poverty and Economic Reform in Africa""; ""Introduction""; ""Consumption: Are women poorer than men?""; ""Production: The gender division of labour""; ""Modelling the determinants of differences in consumption and production""; ""Gender and Structural Adjustment""; ""Gender-disaggregated statistics and research""; ""Conclusion""; ""8. Fiscal Incidence in Africa: Microeconomic Evidence""; ""Introduction""; ""Methods""; ""Results""

""Summary and Conclusions""""Part IV. Labour Markets and Human Capital""; ""9. Labour Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa""; ""Introduction""; ""Labour data""; ""Labour force growth""; ""The structure of labour markets""; ""The structure and determinants of wages""; ""Migration""; ""Labour supply""; ""Determination of aggregate employment""; ""Changes in labour market institutions and labour market policies""; ""Concluding remarks""; ""10. Empirical Modelling of Investment in Health and Nutrition""; ""Introduction""; ""Modelling health (and other human capital) investments""

""Measurement of health""

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