the subsidy on fuel is one of the most contentious socioeconomic policy issues in Nigeria today. In this paper, an economy … in the subsidy generally results in an increase in Nigeria’s gross domestic product, it can have a detrimental impact on … household income, and in particular on poor households. Accompanying the subsidy reduction with income transfers aimed at poor …

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about them. The … model and panel data estimators, this paper provide answers using data from Ethiopia, Niger, Nigeria, Malawi, Tanzania, and …

representative data from the Nigeria General Household Survey Panel, 2010/11. The findings indicate an elasticity of poverty …This paper examines the determinants of agricultural productivity and its link to poverty using nationally … lead to poverty reduction for agricultural households …

available. The authors begin by taking a broad view of poverty, tracing changes in both income poverty and in other more direct … in Africa underscoring the significance of social protection in a poverty reduction strategy. …Christiaensen, Demery, and Paternostro review recent evidence on the trends in household well-being in Africa during …

economies. The findings indicate that Africa's long-term growth is fairly impervious to a prolonged recession in high-income …After an impressive acceleration in growth and poverty reduction since the mid-1990s, many African countries continue … recovery in developed countries, numerous weather shocks, and civil conflicts in Africa? This paper "stress tests" African …

The paper revisits the issue of poverty-specific purchasing power parities (PPPs), using the most recent (2011 …) International Comparison Program (ICP) results. The World Bank's global poverty count uses a common international poverty line … poor. Second, the basket of goods and services used for collecting prices for the ICP is not poverty specific. On the first …

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 … is larger than the proportion of the population that fell into poverty in the same period. The region also saw a 9 …

From 2000 to 2014, per capita gross domestic product in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35 percent in real terms …, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was steady but discouragingly slow. This paper argues that ending extreme … poverty will require structural change in agriculture, and in rural African economies more broadly. Drawing on a range of …

Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version … information, none of these targeting methods brings the poverty rate below about three-quarters of its initial value. The … implemented for targeting out-of-sample. In this paper, the performance of various proxy-means testing methods is assessed using …

, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. It was found that for the countries in Africa, road density …