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 …

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 …

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 …

assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …

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 …

-average temperatures and the incidence of civil war in Africa (Burke et al. 2009). These findings have recently been challenged by Buhaug …

This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its …

Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin … America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities … about a half-century (lost decades). The parallels suggest that Africa might be exiting from a period of post …