understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in …, Mozambique, and South Africa. We conclude that the balance between policies aimed at growth and measures aimed at redistribution …

across regions and over time, but leaves a substantial amount of variation unexplained. The impact of changes in inequality … time in most regions, but more importantly, vary considerably across regions. We show that this cross-regional variation in …

and over time. The analysis is able to condition upon a number of economic and demographic variables. The estimates are …

—in Africa. We expected to find, as we did in Latin America, that progress in the provision of public services and the focus of … is somewhat more positive. However, the overall picture gives little cause for complacency or optimism that Africa has … reaped, or will soon reap the potential benefits of the process of globalization. – health ; education ; wellbeing ; Africa …