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 …

In this paper we examine the relative importance of rural versus urban areas in terms of monetary poverty and seven … in the gaps between urban and rural living standards. Finally, we conduct urban-rural decompositions of inequality …, examining the within versus between (urban and rural) group inequality for asset inequality, education inequality, and health …

We study the effectiveness of social protection benefits in reducing income and consumption poverty in five sub … benefits and their poverty-reducing effects in each country. Second, we study the ability of benefit automatic stabilizers to …. Although the coverage of benefits is fairly high in Ghana and Zambia, the poverty-reducing impact of benefits in all five …

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …

-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the … discretionary tax-benefit policies in alleviating the shock. Our analysis shows modest increases in headcount poverty rates and …

of these measures on income-based poverty and inequality. We find notable reductions in disposable incomes, concentrated … among higher-income households, and moderate increases in headcount poverty rates and poverty gaps. The study highlights the …

technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain households are poverty trapped, that the initial distribution of wealth …

income, labor force participation and poverty rates. Income is the critical variable in this evaluation. Income can be used … national poverty line will not qualify for rental assistance, food subsidies, free healthcare or a variety of other government …