Studies on the link between financial development and poverty have been inconclusive. Some claim that deeper financial … connected. The literature has also been ambiguous about the channels through which finance may be associated with lower poverty … that financial deepening is associated with lower poverty through different channels depending on the strength of property …

households living in extreme poverty -- Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Rwanda. Consistent with the theoretical model, the results …

trends scenario. Finally, rebalancing reduces the prevalence of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the isolated … negative effects of China's slowdown, which slightly increase the incidence of poverty. Overall, China's slowdown and … poverty, but the extent of this varies by country …

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

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 … percent reduction in poverty and a 28 percent increase in the size of the middle class. However, chronic poverty remains high …