Are improvements in growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since the mid-1990s sustainable? What types of growth strategies … contribute the most to reducing poverty? This paper examines these questions in four stages. First, it explores the factors …

The objective of this paper is to present some early experiences of poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) from the … step toward PSIA by making more explicit the links between poverty and policies. Various examples highlight that even … potential poverty effects even in countries with limited data, and therefore contribute to a more informed policy debate and …

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 …

The poverty problem is chronic in the Horn of Africa. Majority of the people in the region are suffering from this …. This paper delves the incidence of poverty in the Horn of Africa region. It identifies the major threats and challenges of … problem. There are numerous factors that cause poverty in the region. The challenge of poverty reduction in the Horn should …

Poverty in Africa is primarily rural concentrated, about 75% of the poor population live in rural areas and draws their … extreme poverty, with the Eastern and Southern Africa having the world’s highest concentrations of poor people. The renewed … productivity on poverty reduction in Africa using the dynamic panel data approach estimated using the System-GMM technique for the …

. 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 …

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 …

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 …

. 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 …

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 …