after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro-poor to some …, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty reduction …. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) gives priority to investment in education and health supply. In countries like …

Since the 1994 devaluation, growth resumed in Mali without any significant decrease of poverty. This may be explained … by the high level of inequality, which has increased in the recent period. The poverty reduction strategy described in …

as the positive impact on welfare of the widespread availability of employment in the informal sector, the data show that … examined in terms of income, education, employment, security, etc. Finally, the analysis brings to light a paradoxical finding …

expenditures on food more that the average. Thirdly, because the share of the poorest in the global income or consumption stagnated …