outcomes in Africa underscoring the significance of social protection in a poverty reduction strategy.This paper - a product of … Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Africa Technical Families - is part of a larger effort to review progress in … poverty reduction in Africa. The authors may be contacted at lchristiaensen@worldbank.org, ldemery@worldbank.org, or …

in Africa underscoring the significance of social protection in a poverty reduction strategy. …Christiaensen, Demery, and Paternostro review recent evidence on the trends in household well-being in Africa during … the 1990s. They draw on the findings of a series of studies on poverty dynamics that use the better data sets now …

After an impressive acceleration in growth and poverty reduction since the mid-1990s, many African countries continue … recovery in developed countries, numerous weather shocks, and civil conflicts in Africa? This paper "stress tests" African … economies. The findings indicate that Africa's long-term growth is fairly impervious to a prolonged recession in high …

the growth and poverty reduction challenges of the future are pointed out. The paper concludes that Africa's record of …This paper explores Africa's economic performance and the creation of jobs over the decade and more since 1995 …, recognizing that some standard labor concepts are difficult to apply to conditions prevailing in Africa. The intent of the paper …

Efforts to get Sub-Saharan Africa back into the world economy through internationally-backed reforms have largely … boosting social development and where it revived investment and growth, helping governments to start tackling poverty. It also … with such drastic measures. But globalisation was not entirely to blame for increased poverty and inequality. Social and …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

The dismal growth performance of Africa is the worst economic tragedy of the XXth century. We document the evolution of … worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central … rates Africa would have enjoyed if these key determinants had taken OECD rather than African values. Expensive investment …