Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on economic growth forecasts, take into account recent global shocks such as …

greatly reduce national poverty over the short-term. In this regard, agricultural growth is more effective, albeit with slower … dynamic economy-wide models for Ethiopia and Uganda that capture both traditional aspects of the debate (growth linkages and … agglomeration is an important source of long-term growth and structural transformation, but that investing in cities does not …

Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that … to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors …

relationship between inequality and growth, the role of agriculture in the development process, the relationships between ethnicity …

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the growth performance of the Cameroonian economy from independence in 1960 to … date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis … of poverty and inequality uses the microeconomic data from three comparable and nationally representative Cameroonian …

-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …

After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as … poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …

This paper decomposes differences between the official poverty estimates of Malawi and a set of revised estimates by … conversion factors; (ii) the specification and use of regional poverty lines as opposed to a single national poverty line; (iii …) the use of implicit survey-based prices rather than external price data; (iv) estimation of food separate poverty lines in …

Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability …. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household … movement of labour out of agriculture has contributed to aggregate growth. But, this trend is slowing and is leading to a …