“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 …

Inequality measurement involves explicit or implicit value judgements. The subjective approach to inequality …

inequality of opportunity, as well as to greater output. This provides an additional rationale for an active role for the …

Drawing on recent work concerning the statistical robustness of inequality statistics we examine the sensitivity of … poverty indices to data contamination using the concept of the influence function. We show that poverty and inequality indices …

, the anatomy of income inequality is thoroughly examined, and particular attention is given to the issue of statistical …

(english) The aim of this paper is to realize an in-depth analysis of the growth and poverty interactions in Syria …. One of the main tools of the pro-poor growth literature used is the index developed by Bibi (2010), which takes into …-2004 period growth was not equitable at both national and regional levels. When the objective of halving poverty in 2015 is used …