outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …

This paper explores the relationships between openness, poverty and inequality in Africa. The analysis begins with a … the patterns of trade and finance that link Africa to the rest of the world. The macroeconomic policy framework that … guided African policymaking over the last three decades is the lens through which poverty and inequality are further examined …

income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …

inequality patterns. It also reviews developments at the extremes of the income distribution, namely poverty, top incomes as well …