This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the …

Although growth has improved substantially in most African countries in recent years, poverty across the continent has … fallen very little in the aggregate. There have been strong poverty reduction performances in some countries, but others … exhibit higher poverty rates now than in 1990 despite economic growth. This paper seeks to understand the reasons for this …

gender inclusive formal economic participation in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised …

Growth improved substantially in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 1990, but poverty in SSA as a whole … or no success in reducing poverty, many have had significant achievements. The paper argues that inter … into poverty reduction. Since the 1990s (when poverty data are available) the distinction in terms of poverty reduction can …

This study assesses the nexus between bribery and poverty, contingent on the macroeconomic environment within the remit … of inflation in Africa. The Afrobarometer survey is used. Our data cover 38 countries consisting of three rounds of … regression. The results reveal that while poverty has a positive effect on the spread of bribery, inflation can mitigate the …

Sudan, the Poverty of Nations examined what had gone wrong and why aid had so often been ineffective, even counter … development will fail. More than 25 years after it was published, many of the issues discussed in the Poverty of Nations remain …

-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post … poverty gap in Central and Eastern Europe, while generous welfare policies, specifically higher levels of spending on pensions …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …

The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in … one set of indicators that capture the extension of lived poverty, that is what percentage of the respondents, experiences … deprivation, but we also develop a series of indicators that capture the severity of lived poverty, that is how frequently …