Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Sub Saharan Africa: Recent Progress in a Global Context
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The present study employs recent World Bank data to shed light, in a global context, on the transformation of income and inequality changes to poverty reduction for a large number of countries in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The study begins by shedding light on SSA’s progress on poverty. Next, it presents data on how various African countries have fared on poverty incidence relative to other countries, with special emphasis on the more recent period since the mid 1990s when SSA has generally experienced growth resurgence. The paper, then, decomposes performance on poverty into income and inequality changes for a sample of SSA countries with the requisite data. The findings are that the recent progress on poverty has been considerable, in contrast to the earlier period. Compared with the progress in a global sample of countries, however, progress has been mixed; although African countries lag behind the BRIC group of countries generally, many of them have actually outperformed India. While income growth is, furthermore, found to be the main engine for poverty reduction in SSA generally, the role of inequality is crucial in certain countries. Moreover, viewed in a global context, the low levels of income have retarded the effectiveness of income and inequality improvements in reducing poverty in many African countries. *Professor, ISSER, University of Ghana; Research Associate, CSAE, University of Oxford
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