Linking growth and poverty is a crucial element for evaluating the effectiveness of government policies under the … Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process. Burkina Faso has benefited from more than 3 percent growth in per … have lifted some Burkinabe above the poverty line, and led to a reduction in poverty rates. Growth during 1998-2003 was …

transformed into poverty reduction. The key obstacles preventing large-scale escape from poverty are very high population growth …Burkina Faso has experienced quite significant aggregate growth over the past two decades, but that growth has not been …