Poverty reduction in Africa

Poverty reduction in Africa.

Poverty in Africa has been rising for the last quarter-century, while it has been falling in the rest of the developing world. Africa's distinctive problem is that its economies have not been growing. This article attempts to synthesize a range of recent research to account for this failure of the growth process. I argue that the reasons lie not in African peculiarities but rather in geographic...

Local Governance for Poverty Reduction in Africa

Governance and poverty reduction in Africa.

A careful review of the literature in political science and neighboring social science disciplines shows that prevailing assumptions in the international development policy community about improved governance as a principal mechanism to reduce poverty in Africa rests more on faith than science. Conventional policy models for tackling poverty fail to take into account the peculiar socioeconomic ...

Neoliberalism and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa

It is conventional wisdom both that during the past two decades, Africa was ‘marginalised’ by globalisation and that the Bretton Woods Institutions’ strategies for stabilisation and recovery often produced neither. As recent solutions, three African presidents have proposed a ‘New Partnership for Africa’s Development’ (Nepad, launched in 2001), and the World Bank and IMF are promoting ‘Poverty ...

Fiscal Policy and Poverty Reduction in Some Selected Sub-Saharan Africa Countries

The equally uncharacterized nature of government role in Sub Saharan African (SSA) region on the issue of poverty reduction have surged the modest research of this study. The issue on poverty is a continuous cause and need remedies so much and fast. This study examined the effect of fiscal policy on poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1999 to 2016. Pool Mean Group (PMG) was employed to...