This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle … class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 …

inequality and severity of poverty on economic growth. The focus is on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa with data from 1980 to … quantile regressions in order to assess how income inequality and poverty dynamics affect economic growth throughout the … economic growth and (ii) comparative incidences of poverty and inequality in affecting economic growth. …

severity and intensity of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators …, ICT usage, and ICT access, ICT skills is remarkable in reducing both the severity and intensity of poverty. The results … further unveil that, though ICT skills reduce the intensity and severity of poverty in SSA, the effect is more pronounced in …

policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account liberalization on growth, under the 'Mundell's trilemma constraint. The …

growth and dynamic welfare with special reference to South Africa. While water may become a limiting factor for future … development in general, as a drought prone and water poor country with rapid population growth, South Africa may face more serious …

are key for driving inclusive growth in SSA. Further, the results show that out of the 13, the poverty headcount (US$1 … and predicting inclusive growth. To address this, I train the machine learning algorithms for the Standard lasso, the … comprising 97 covariates of inclusive growth for 43 SSA countries. First, the regularization results show that only 13 variables …

This study complements the inclusive growth literature by examining the determinants and consequences of the middle … class in a continent where economic growth has been relatively high. The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 33 …

consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track …In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household …-anonymous growth incidence curve. We find that the standard growth incidence curve does not always help to detect or to identify the …

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single … national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s. In this paper, we estimate a new set of poverty lines that … poverty lines, we then look at poverty dynamics using four waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey. We classify households …