growth, poverty, and human development indicators. We identify key weaknesses, including lack of structural transformation …

This paper reviews the book “Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa” by Antonio Estache and Quentin Wodon …. The authors summarize the political debate on infrastructure policy in Africa in a very compelling and knowledgeable way … welfare enhancing benefits of infrastructure investments is less conclusive than suggested in the book. The book also misses …

-step system generalized methods of moments to investigate the effect of urbanization on the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty … Gap. The estimated urbanization elasticities of poverty indicate that at growth rates, a 1 percentage point increase in … urbanization rate induces 0.04 and 0.05 (0.07 and 0.09) percentage points decrease in the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty Gap …

Poverty and inequality represent major policy syndromes that are relevant in the achievement of most United Nations … attendant SDGs. The present study extends existing literature by assessing the conditional influence of poverty, income … inequality and severity of poverty on economic growth. The focus is on 42 countries in sub-Saharan Africa with data from 1980 to …