Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth …

-poor agricultural growth and of policies that can promote such growth in poor rural economies in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa … difficulties in today's poor rural areas in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Some of these difficulties are endogenous to these … Africa, new thinking is urgently needed to find alternative ways of 'kick starting' markets ways which reduce rent seeking …