Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and …-based inequality to be published in a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies. It provides a brief introduction to legal …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has … of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to Asia's success stories. Structural adjustment did not change the …

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 …