Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa …. Overall, the studies find that investments in agricultural research, infrastructure, and human capital are beneficial in the … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth …

access to public infrastructure and services to land value and a panel of household-level data on consumption, poverty, and … as further research into precisely how infrastructure and services affect rural households' welfare and how their …

s, though it still remains far below the sub-Saharan Africa average. Similarly, fixed telephone line infrastructure more … of the least urbanized countries in the world (16 percent), compared to the Sub-Sahara Africa average of 30 percent …

infrastructure investments would affect market access, and how market access would in turn affect agricultural production and … investment in ports in the DRC should be a priority in the infrastructure investment portfolio. …