The recent political upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa region have exposed growing concerns about conflict …

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 …

paper then shows that a high poverty headcount and inefficient public institutions will each strengthen the political …

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …