. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in …

After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as …

Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors … - has not featured in Africa's post-1995 growth story. As a result, the region's fastest growing economies have the least …

Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability … movement of labour out of agriculture has contributed to aggregate growth. But, this trend is slowing and is leading to a … saturation of the services sector. Moreover, productivity growth is weakening within more labour-intensive sectors. We conclude …

Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …

The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the … population: there can be groups of the population made poorer or non-poor made poor by growth. We propose an approach that allows …

way; the last three decades have witnessed one of the best performances in the world in terms of both economic growth and …

and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on economic growth forecasts, take into account recent global shocks such as … the COVID-19 pandemic and the inflation shock. Our findings indicate that economic growth alone will not be sufficient to … this, we argue, is that a stronger focus is needed on inclusive growth (SDG-8), and specifically redistribution with growth …