With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

Growth has been high and widespread in the last decade in Africa. Whether this shift in Africa's fortune has impacted … poverty has been a subject of controversy. This paper brings into focus recent evidence on the pace of poverty reduction in … Africa and addresses whether or not previously held belief that Africa is too poor to grow is relevant today. The findings …

The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to … African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) – suggests that deeper intra-regional, and in particular …

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …