Growth, Distribution, and Poverty in Africa : Messages from the 1990s

Paternostro, Stefano; Christiaensen, Luc; Demery, Lionel

Growth, Distribution, and Poverty in Africa : Messages from the 1990s

2002

Paternostro, Stefano | Christiaensen, Luc | Demery, Lionel

This book synthesizes, and elaborates on the results of a series of country studies, completed under the Poverty Dynamics in Africa Initiative, organized by the Africa Region of the Bank. These studies made use of vastly improved household survey data, which have enhanced understanding of African poverty dynamics during the past decade. The book examines the main factors behind observed poverty changes in eight countries - Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Mauritania, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. After reviewing the trends in income poverty and other, more direct measures of well-being (such as education, health, and nutrition), the authors go beyond the aggregate numbers, and highlight the insights to be gained from unraveling the microeconomic data. These data reveal systematic distributional effects, linking growth and poverty, which lead to some groups' gaining from episodes of economic growth, and others being left behind. It further describes those groups left behind, and calls for public action to ensure that all poor Africans gain from future economic growth.

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access to land child nutrition developing countries development indicators economic conditions economic growth food consumption health statistics health surveys household consumption human capital immunodeficiency income distribution international trade living standards malaria malnutrition national income nutrition poverty reduction public services risk factors rule of law rural poverty social capital social protection state intervention terms of trade urban areas

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Washington, DC: World Bank

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Macroeconomic stability; Pro-poor growth; Country estimates; Consumption distribution; Private consumption; Poverty changes; Household survey; Macroeconomic policy; Health survey; Headcount ratio; Poverty change; Poverty line; Gini coefficient; Primary school; Purchasing power; Institutional change acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; Consumption growth; Policy volatility; Increasing inequality; Poverty lines; Growth regressions; Long-term growth; Income data; Poor people; Growth elasticity; Living standards indicators; Distributional change; Consumption poverty; Political reforms; Primary schools; Human development; Poverty measure; Mean incomes; Macroeconomic policies; Population groups; Welfare measure; Poverty headcount; Growth path; Poverty gap; Escape poverty; Cpi; Aggregate level; Economic policy; Aggregate analysis; Social protection systems; Poverty reduction strategy; Household characteristics; Access to health services; Relative importance; Rural households; Political stability; Growth rates; Educational level; Explaining changes; Household expenditures; Data sources; Macroeconomic reform; Asset index; Infant mortality; Inequality measures; Income distributions; Income quintiles; Household level; Purchasing power parity; Institutional change; Policy reforms; Economic opportunities; Inequality will; Average poverty; Data sets; Income inequality; Mean expenditure; Poverty outcomes; Economic decline; Poverty dynamics; Income levels; Economic management; Political instability; Macroeconomic reforms; Poverty measurement; Producers; Sustainable poverty; Pro-poor; Social exclusion; Poor households; Economic change; Income poverty; Consumption inequality; Poverty trends; Poverty reduction strategies; Headcount poverty; Mean income growth; Household welfare indicators; Poverty incidence; Cross-country analysis; Mean consumption; Mean income

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CC BY 3.0 IGO, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo, World Bank

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8213-5213

En AGRIS desde: 2024-10-18

Fecha de modificación: 2025-05-23

Formato: Dublin Core

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