Africa will be undergoing substantial demographic changes in the coming decades with the rising working age share of … poverty reduction will depend on several factors. The outlook will likely be good if African countries can continue the gains … catch up to other developing countries. If the skill share of Africa's labor supply doubles because of improvements in …

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 …

-Saharan Africa; these changes went undetected by standard inequality measures. By developing a new decomposition technique based on a … change, poverty could have decreased an additional 5-6 percentage points during the past decade …

Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …

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 …

This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and … fared? And what role have they played in Africa's impressive recent aggregate growth and poverty reduction? Using data … poverty has been falling in the aggregate since the 1990s. These facts raise two questions: How have female-headed households …

, 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 …

The effect of demographics on poverty measurement based on per capita consumption is well known. The size and … household. Failure to address this issue may often lead to an underestimation or overestimation of poverty, especially for … structures and choice of the pivot household for establishing the per capita poverty line. Based on the World Bank's African …

From 2000 to 2014, per capita gross domestic product in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35 percent in real terms …, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was steady but discouragingly slow. This paper argues that ending extreme … poverty will require structural change in agriculture, and in rural African economies more broadly. Drawing on a range of …