This study assesses the incidence of the Covid-19 pandemic on poverty levels in 50 African countries by employing the … PovcalNet computational tool for poverty monitoring. The empirical evidence is based on: (i) Pre Covid-19 macroeconomic … projections of October 2019 and revised macroeconomic projections of April 2020 and (ii) three poverty thresholds, notably, US$1 …

This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and … severity of poverty in 42 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1980 to 2019. Mobile money innovations are understood … Gini index. Poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio while the severity of poverty is generated as the squared of …

An April 2015 World Bank report on the Millennium Development Goal poverty target has revealed that extreme poverty has … been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa. This study extends the implications of Thomas … development increases and Africa may not catch-up with the developed world. As an ideal solution, Piketty has proposed progressive …

, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two … illustrate how such diversion of funds overseas are related to the spread of poverty in the African economies. We enunciate a …

This study complements existing literature by investigating how investment-driven finance affects inequality in Africa …

dropped substantially in all regions with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. We assess if poverty is in the African gene by … diversity. Hence, poverty is not in the African gene from a within-Africa comparative standpoint. Policy implications are … revisiting the findings of Ashraf and Galor (2013, AER) and reformulating the ‘Out of Africa Hypothesis' into a ‘Genetic …

revealed that extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …An April 2015 World Bank report on attainment of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme poverty target has … common policy initiatives against a cause of extreme poverty in SSA: capital flight. The richness of the dataset enables the …

. Poverty alleviation channels explaining this difference in inequality mitigating propensity are discussed. The empirical …