review of the work of Timap for justice (Timap), a not for-profit paralegal and advocacy organization in Sierra Leone. The … concrete solutions to justice problems; and 2) to increase the accountability and fairness of both traditional and formal … useful to other paralegal organizations in developing nations, institutions with a focus on justice and rule of law …

reduce poverty. Sub-Saharan Africa is moving dangerously in the opposite direction. Africa's richest resource, and its best … billion people worldwide struggling to survive on less than USD 1 a day. Fighting the scourge of poverty is at the heart of … will help the poor escape poverty without a transparent and accountable government. We are seeing an informed African …

Africa's urban population will triple by 2050. People in these rapidly growing cities need safe, convenient, and … reliable water supplies. However, the proportion of Africa's urban population with improved water supply has barely grown since …

-Saharan Africa; these changes went undetected by standard inequality measures. By developing a new decomposition technique based on a … distribution, and this distributional change lowered the pro-poor impact of growth substantially. Without this change, poverty …

than 20 countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this process, the analysis employs … countries as a whole have had pro-poor growth. One-third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which … is larger than the proportion of the population that fell into poverty in the same period. The region also saw a 9 …

on how prices matter for measuring poverty, particularly in Africa. It draws on a wide literature, much from developed …Measuring poverty requires adjusting nominal consumption (or income) into a real value of consumption, across … of price data and methodologies for indexing. These different approaches can have large impacts on poverty measures and …

poverty. The comprehensive assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …