In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …

social cash transfers. The results indicate that Zambian agricultural policies reduce headcount poverty by 3-5 percentage …, poverty reduction with smaller government net expenditure. The results from these simulations suggest that it is feasible to … highlight that the final impacts on poverty and inequality are heterogeneous across population groups. …

phase 3. Southern Africa, specifically those in the Southern African Development Community, is used as a case study. We find …

.g., irrigation schemes, hydropower plants, roads, etc.) has been questioned considerably in recent years. For this reason, efforts to …

paper examines how the temporary migration of parents for the sole purpose of work affects the health outcomes of children …Economic research on labour migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the … health used, height-for-age, serves as a proxy for stunting. The evidence suggests that whether parental migration is …

This paper looks at the prospects of a demographic dividend in Africa in the near future. While acknowledging that the … have stalled once they have begun, we nevertheless conclude that there are many underlying features of Africa today which … on some of the economic implications of a demographic dividend in Africa, including the helpful fact that when it occurs …

, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per … cent of the missing women are 'missing' from Africa. This paper employs a novel methodology to determine how the phenomenon … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality …

precision of results generated by public opinion surveys. Survey research on basic health and education services sub …-Saharan Africa shows that the perceived 'user friendliness' (or ease of use) of services drives popular evaluations of government … research designs, are more rigorous and reliable than either method alone. The paper proposes a menu of such designs. …

; maximum humidity; precipitation; precipitation standard deviation; malaria cases; health facilities; hospital beds; health … workers; per capita health expenditure and gross domestic product per capita. The Fixed Effects Model was found to be … preferable. Health facilities, per capita GDP, the interaction of temperature and precipitation, the interaction of precipitation …

on poverty reduction and income redistribution. We also present a static microsimulation to analyse the potential impacts …, intensity, and severity of poverty are, in the best of cases, moderate and, although their progressivity is high, their …