The authors examine the empirical evidence in support of the poverty trap view of underdevelopment. They calibrate … simple aggregate growth models in which poverty traps can arise due to either low saving or low technology at low levels of … development. They then use these models to assess the empirical relevance of poverty traps and their consequences for policy. The …

in Africa underscoring the significance of social protection in a poverty reduction strategy. …Christiaensen, Demery, and Paternostro review recent evidence on the trends in household well-being in Africa during … the 1990s. They draw on the findings of a series of studies on poverty dynamics that use the better data sets now …

After an impressive acceleration in growth and poverty reduction since the mid-1990s, many African countries continue … recovery in developed countries, numerous weather shocks, and civil conflicts in Africa? This paper "stress tests" African … economies. The findings indicate that Africa's long-term growth is fairly impervious to a prolonged recession in high …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty … persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that …

, the impact of trade openness on poverty reduction is ambiguous. A more liberalized trade regime is argued to change … relative factor prices in favor of the more abundant factor. If poverty and relative low income stem from abundance of labor …, greater trade openness should lead to higher labor prices and a decrease in poverty. However, should the re-allocation of …

's economic marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial period to the end of colonial rule. It is not that women … even in kinship structures in pre-colonial Africa, utilizing the concepts of "rights in persons" and "wealth in people …." Reviewing the processes of production and reproduction, it explains why most slaves in pre-colonial Africa were women and …

-century India and Africa. Colonial institutions-the law, western style property rights, newspapers and statistical analysis … much of Asia and Africa, the most successful enhancement of people's capabilities has come through the action of hybrid …

In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the …

This paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. The authors examine …