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

African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural ….5 per cent, and humanitarian 11.9 per cent. Using secondary data and country-case studies from Africa, the study …

Malaria still claims a heavy human and economic toll, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa. Even though the causality … between malaria and poverty is presumably bi-directional, malaria plays a role in the economic difficulties of the region … policy is doomed to fail in presence of a very high poverty incidence, as observed in the African region. …