Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa …, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth …

The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only …. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for now, its position in the world system, it may nonetheless create the …

countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. We employ in this process repeated cross sections …