We present evidence that the recent African growth renaissance has reached Africa’s poor. Using survey data on African … income distributions and national accounts GDP, we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality indices for … African countries for the period 1990–2011. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling rapidly; (2) the African countries …

Purpose – The economic growth performance of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) over the past few decades has confounded … poverty of SSA has many dimensions and causes, both internal and external. Certainly part of its underdevelopment is … is that the principal therapy for poverty in SSA comes from within by addressing the internal obstacles to growth …

resulted in a reduction of poverty in Africa. Inter-country variations in income and human poverty reinforce the established … patterns of well-being within the continent, as countries in Northern and Southern Africa have the lowest levels of poverty …. The empirical analysis reveals that inter- country differences in poverty levels can be accounted for by variables …

Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth … long term, while food aid and poverty reduction programs have little utility beyond immediately abating hunger and …

Comparison between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and East Asia indicates that gender inequality in education and employment … capital, support for rural livelihood strategies, and engendering statistics and poverty monitoring. …

. Eritrea is a newly born nation in Africa and is striving hard to develop its higher education. An attempt is made in this …