“Accelerated Growth Strategy” (Stratégie de Croissance Accélérée in French or SCA) in the fight against poverty. We start by an … analysis of the macroeconomic foundations of growth in Senegal and then examine the evolution of labor market and social … indicators over the period under study. We show that growth achievements did not meet the targets set by the SCA. Despite the …

(english) Since the 1994 devaluation, growth has been quite strong in Mali (about 5% p.a. on average), but much weaker … in terms of GDP per person (about 2.6% p.a.) due to a very high index of fecundity. Growth is still very unstable, due to … a surge after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro …

Since 2004, the Government of Senegal has adopted an accelerated growth program in the aim of reducing poverty by half … growth strategy is not really in accordance with the Senegalese Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and … on inequality, bipolarization and polarization is analyzed via what is known as the Shapley de-composition and the …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

The aim of this paper is to provide fresh empirical evidence of the mechanisms through which wage inequality affects … inequality. Her results are robust within the different specifications and different definitions of the reference group. …

wage inequality widened relatively more between unskilled and skilled workers. The reasons for the persistence of … unemployment are discussed, the impact of the increasing unemployment and growing inequality in wage distribution on income …

absolute approach to inequality measurement when defining pro-poor growth. With a relative approach to pro-poor growth it is … pro-poor growth, inequality is supposed not to vary when an equal sum is added to all incomes. The empirical illustration …This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains …

population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality … poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future …