This paper argues that the search for a policy framework for transiting from post-conflict recovery to sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa could be anchored in the broad concept of development as a process of expanding the freedoms that people enjoy. Under such concept the overarching...

The papers in this volume deal with some aspects of the process of development in post-conflict countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, namely, policy framework for transiting from post-conflict to sustainable development; mechanisms for financing post-conflict recovery; poverty reduction strategies...

This paper deals with the political economy of inequality in the distribution of consumption expenditure in the Arab region, using consumption expenditure as the best available proxy for the standard of living in developing countries (in contrast to income being the relevant proxy in the...

The paper deals with the major empirical poverty and income distribution issues in the context of developing countries. To focus attention it starts with a simple poverty decomposition framework where a change in poverty is shown to be the sum of a change due to economic growth and a change due...