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 …

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 …

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 …

Much of Africa has not yet gone through a quot;demographic transitionquot; to reduced mortality and fertility rates … population 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 …

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

In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies … small, portion of the elevated growth in sub Saharan Africa in the three years before the Financial Crisis and also in the …

experience. In contrast to the East Asian experience, none of the recent growth accelerations in Latin America, Africa, or South … rapid within-sector labor productivity growth (Latin America) or growth-increasing structural change (Africa), but rarely … explain this anomaly by arguing that the forces that promoted structural change in Africa originated on the demand side …