, one in three persons living in poverty today might not be poor had it not been for the conflict. …Conflicts and political instability have been serious constraints to growth in Guinea-Bissau. Of special concern was … estimates that GDP per capita today could have been more than 40 percent higher if there had been no conflict in 1998. In turn …

result of the conflict, as well as a lack of improvement since then, at least for those in poverty who are highly vulnerable …Guinea-Bissau endured a major conflict in 1998 and has suffered from persistent political instability since …. The data suggest an increase in the lack of security after the conflict and no clear sign of improvement. The population …

findings in the areas of conflict, growth and poverty, institutions and social networks, the characteristics of the poor and … rural areas. As growth has been weak, poverty levels have remained high. This paper serves as an introduction and overview … for a book that provides a collection of papers on conflict, livelihoods, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau based on both a …

with malnutrition may also imply a conflict between different measures of poverty. Both the models point toward a direct … behavior of the poor in terms of a static and dynamic model. The static model points toward a possible conflict between income … based and nutrition-based measure of poverty. The dynamic model exhibits the possibility of a higher rate of accumulation …

This analytical review explores the links between growth, poverty and inequality in Sudan for the period 1956 … GDP per capita growth- and inequality as measured by Gini coefficient (the growth, inequality and poverty triangle …) whether growth, inequality and poverty are cointegrated, ii( whether growth Granger causes inequality, iii) and whether …

Due in part to 40 years of cyclical violence, economic growth in Burundi has remained well below the sub-Saharan Africa … the Government drive the changes needed to achieve sustainable growth. This chapter provides an overview of past and … current macroeconomic trends and describes how the poverty profile could influence policy reforms. …