This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … what policy interventions can do to reduce inequality. … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the …

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 …

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Africa. Results suggest inequality between countries tends to be higher when the share of … inequality in Africa. Other factors correlated strongly with inequality reduction include human capital which tend to have large …This paper examines how inequality could be tackled through structural transformation using unit record data from the …

factors and the economic ideology pertaining during this period, which in turn, drive the policy regimes and economic outcomes …

In Sub-Saharan Africa we find some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. Nevertheless, we generally … know very little about the historical development of inequality. In this paper we look at how inequality developed in … colonial and post-colonial Botswana. We show that income inequality started rising in the 1940s and peaked in the mid-1970s …