Growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa / / Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp.

• Superior document: UNU-WIDER studies in development economics
• TeilnehmendeR: Arndt, Channing,; McKay, Andy, 1973-; Tarp, Finn, 1951-; World Institute for Development Economics Research,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: UNU-WIDER studies in development economics.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxii, 466 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

While the economic growth renaissance in sub-Saharan Africa is widely recognised, much less is known about progress in living conditions. This book evaluates trends in living conditions in 16 major sub-Saharan African countries, corresponding to nearly 75% of the total population.

Table of Contents

1: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 2: Synthesis: Two Cheers for the African Growth Renaissance (but not Three) -- Part 1. Rapid Growth and Rapid Poverty Reduction -- 3: Poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11: Welfare Improvements in a Changing Economic Landscape -- 4: Ghana: Poverty Reduction over Thirty Years -- 5: Did Rapid Smallholder-Led Agricultural Growth Fail to Reduce Rural Poverty? Making Sense of Malawiś Poverty Puzzle -- 6: Growth, Poverty Reduction, and Inequality in Rwanda -- 7: Poverty and its Dynamics in Uganda: Explorations Using a New Set of Poverty Lines -- Part 2. Rapid Growth but Limited Poverty Reduction -- 8: Burkina Faso: Shipping around the Malthusian Trap -- 9: Mozambique: Off-track or Temporarily Sidelined? -- 10: Spatial and Temporal Multidimensional Poverty in Nigeria --

11: Growth and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania -- 12: Assessing Progress in Welfare Improvements in Zambia: A Multidimensional Approach -- Part 3. Uninspiring/Negative Growth and Poverty Reduction -- 13: Slow Progress in Growth and Poverty Reduction in Cameroon -- 14: The Fall of the Elephant: Two Decades of Poverty Increase in Cote d'Ivoire, 1988-2008 -- 15: Incomes, Inequality, and Poverty in Kenya: A Long-Term Perspective -- 16: Utility-Consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10: Snapshots in the Presence of Multiple Economy-Wide Shocks -- 17: Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Part 4. Low-Information Countries -- 18: Growth and Poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo: 2001 through 2013.