understand the prospects for achieving poverty reduction in Africa. We examine the levels and trends in income distribution in …This paper examines trends in income distribution and its linkages to economic growth and poverty reduction in order to …, Mozambique, and South Africa. We conclude that the balance between policies aimed at growth and measures aimed at redistribution …

Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing …, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and South Africa. These countries show contrasted situations in terms of income distribution. We …

GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- Stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

like for Africa? The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank has set goals to end … poverty levels. At this rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully … extreme poverty by 2030 and to promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub …

GDP per capita in the continent of Africa. -- stochastic processes ; poverty ; inequality ; wellbeing measurement …. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

increases household living standards by 30% and significantly reduces the prevalence and depth of poverty. For the other two …

With the year 2015 - the MDG finishing line - approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world …

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 …

. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both … absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being robust to whether pro-poor judgements should be absolute or relative, the … ranges of absolute and relative poverty lines. The test is applied to distributional changes in five middle- and four lower …