This book tackles the disagreements that affect those looking to establish the macroeconomic policies needed to halve poverty over the next ten years. It presents a pro-poor macroeconomic policy allowing countries to recapture policy space, help promote growth, reduce inequality and diminish...

Between March and August 2005 Niger was hit by a doubling of millet prices and a sharp rise in the number of severely malnourished children admitted to feeding centres. The extent and causes of such crisis remain controversial. The paper reviews the evidence in this regard in the light of the...

We estimate an aggregate model of child mortality on a panel of 40 African countries over the period 1995--2007. This model is then used to assess the impact of the 2008--2009 food and financial crises on child mortality, by comparing the number of child deaths computed under a...