policy designed to address poverty. The paper then reviews recent work on processes governing the use of, and access to … observed in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Differentiating between two scenarios, those of 'boom' and 'stagnant' rural …

Africa's total land area is approximately 11,724,000 square miles, which is about 30,365,000 square km. From north to …. After Asia, Africa is the second largest continent, covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of the Earth. Africa …

the Western and Eastern African regions on current accounts balance, economic growth and poverty alleviation using a panel … data of 2000-2014. Both for the economic growth and poverty reduction effects estimation, random effects model was found to … poverty headcount. When remittance receipt increases by 1%, poverty in these countries decline by 2.55%. Thus, the poverty …

This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and … fared? And what role have they played in Africa's impressive recent aggregate growth and poverty reduction? Using data … poverty has been falling in the aggregate since the 1990s. These facts raise two questions: How have female-headed households …

The study assesses how financial institution dynamics have affected poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 sub … institutions dynamics affect poverty and the severity of poverty throughout the conditional distribution of poverty and severity of … poverty. The findings show various tendencies, inter alia: (i) financial institutions depth (efficiency) consistently …