Africa in order to contribute to an assessment of the benefits of growth (or the cost of a lack of growth) for poverty … achieved high levels of growth in the 1990s, and that also experienced important reductions in poverty, even though growth was … was an initial perception that growth did not lead to much poverty reduction. The more detailed analysis of poverty …

growth, and ultimately reduce poverty. Making such decisions is difficult because it involves considering multiple trade …-offs. There are at least four reasons why designing and implementing fiscal policies that contribute to growth and poverty … foster poverty reduction. Policy makers in both developing and developed countries, as well as nongovernmental or …

This chapter was written in 2007 in order to inform the diagnostic of Liberia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. Little has …

because of lack of good data. This chapter was also written in 2007 to inform the diagnostic of Liberia’s Poverty Reduction …

serve children who live in poverty more than public schools, and after controlling for student and household characteristics …

newly available household surveys have permitted the estimation of measures of poverty among cotton producers in West and … Central Africa, as well as simulations of the impact that changes in producer prices may have on poverty. …

the population in poverty declined from 49.0 percent in 1988-89 to 36.7 percent in 2001-02. The results presented here … suggest a continuation of this trend with only 26.6 percent of the population in poverty in 2007. This article describes the … methodology used to derive these estimates and presents a profile of poverty according to household characteristics. In addition …