Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has … been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack … of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to Asia's success stories. Structural adjustment did not change the …

African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural ….5 per cent, and humanitarian 11.9 per cent. Using secondary data and country-case studies from Africa, the study …

Malaria still claims a heavy human and economic toll, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa. Even though the causality … between malaria and poverty is presumably bi-directional, malaria plays a role in the economic difficulties of the region … policy is doomed to fail in presence of a very high poverty incidence, as observed in the African region. …

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the …

Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the …

-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … discretionary tax-benefit policies in alleviating the shock. Our analysis shows modest increases in headcount poverty rates and … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …

Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing …, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and South Africa. These countries show contrasted situations in terms of income distribution. We …

inequality and poverty. The results are based on newly developed microsimulation models for Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, South … Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia. They highlight differences in tax and benefit systems among these African countries, show the …