Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is generally highlighted as a puzzle that deviates from the stylized facts in … the literature. Using data from a panel of 29 urbanizing countries in SSA from 1985 to 2019, the study employs the two …-step system generalized methods of moments to investigate the effect of urbanization on the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty …

Absent actual panel household survey data, we construct for the first time synthetic panel data for more than twenty … countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. We employ in this process repeated cross sections … had pro-poor growth. In particular, one third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which is …

Absent actual panel household survey data, this paper constructs, for the first time, synthetic panel data for more … than 20 countries accounting for two-thirds of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this process, the analysis employs … countries as a whole have had pro-poor growth. One-third of the poor population escaped poverty during the studied period, which …

) on poverty in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). In achieving this, a balanced panel of 30 SSA countries from 1996 to 2018 was … explored using fixed-effect instrumental regression, fixed effect panel threshold model, and the heterogenous Granger … incidence and intensity of poverty. (2) the impact of FDI is contingent on the absorptive capacity of the host country. The …

Growth improved substantially in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since 1990, but poverty in SSA as a whole … or no success in reducing poverty, many have had significant achievements. The paper argues that inter … into poverty reduction. Since the 1990s (when poverty data are available) the distinction in terms of poverty reduction can …