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The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …
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Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact … growth (with an accompanying state of chronic extreme poverty) has been attributed to many factors ranging from the status of … women, pro-natalist policies, poverty itself, and social institutions. There remains, however, a large degree of uncertainty …
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The dismal growth performance of Africa is the worst economic tragedy of the XXth century. We document the evolution of … worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central … rates Africa would have enjoyed if these key determinants had taken OECD rather than African values. Expensive investment …
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assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …
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Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …
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"Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that … often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be … uncorrelated with ex-post firm-level responses, further evidence that deals rather than rules prevail in Africa. Strikingly, the …
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Despite the low levels of taxation and public good provision in Africa, I provide evidence that a large proportion of … its potential threats to the autonomy of society. I show the historic social contracts in Africa rarely featured taxation … the way Africa is governed today …
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Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These employment gains have been … (iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa's large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa's large manufacturing … manufacturing to raise living standards in Africa depends on indirect job creation by large firms through backward and forward …
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about women's time use in Africa. First, in North Africa, women spend very few hours in market work and female labor force … participation overall is extremely low. Second, although extensive margin participation of women is high in sub-Saharan Africa …
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We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence, using census data …
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