Growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa /

Growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Description:1 online resource (xxxii, 466 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:UNU-WIDER studies in development economics.
Studies in development economics.
Subject:
Economic development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Economic development.
Economic history.
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Electronic book
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12664749
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Arndt, Channing, editor.
McKay, Andy, 1973- editor.
Tarp, Finn, 1951- editor.
World Institute for Development Economics Research.
ISBN:0191805955
9780191805950
9780191062230
0191062235
9780198744795
019874479X
Notes:A study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Arndt, Channing. Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Oxford : OUP Oxford, ©2016
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Growth and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa / Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp
  • 2. Synthesis: Two cheers for the African growth renaissance (but not three) / Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp
  • Part 1: Rapid growth and rapid poverty reduction. 3. Poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11 : welfare improvements in a changing economic landscape / David Stifel and Tassew Woldehanna ; 4. Ghana : poverty reduction over thirty years / Andy McKay, Jukka Pirttilä, and Finn Tarp ; 5. Did rapid smallholder-led agricultural growth fail to reduce rural poverty? Making sense of Malawi's poverty puzzle / Karl Pauw, Ulrik Beck, and Richard Mussa ; 6. Growth, poverty reduction, and inequality in Rwanda / Andy McKay and Marijke Verpoorten ; 7. Poverty and its dynamics in Uganda : explorations using a new set of poverty lines / Bjorn Van Campenhout, Haruna Sekabira, and Dede Houeto Aduayom
  • Part 2: Rapid growth but limited poverty reduction. 8. Burkina Faso : shipping around the Malthusian trap / Michael Grimm, Claude Wetta, and Aude Nikiema ; 9. Mozambique : off-track or temporarily sidelined? / Channing Arndt, E. Samuel Jones, and Finn Tarp ; 10. Spatial and temporal multidimensional poverty in Nigeria / Olu Ajakaiye, Afeikhena T. Jerome, Olanrewaju Olaniyan, Kristi Mahrt, and Olufunke A. Alaba ; 11. Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania / Channing Arndt, Lionel Demery, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp ; 12. Assessing progress in welfare improvements in Zambia : a multidimensional approach / Gibson Masumbu and Kristi Mahrt
  • Part 3: Uninspiring/negative growth and poverty reduction. 13. Slow progress in growth and poverty reduction in Cameroon / Samuel Fambon, Andy McKay, Joseph-Pierre Timnou, Olive Stéphanie Kouakep, Anaclet Désiré Dzossa, and Romain Tchakoute Ngoho ; 14. The fall of the elephant : two decades of poverty increasein Cote d'Ivoire, 1988-2008 / Denis Cogneau, Kenneth Houngbedji, and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps ; 15. Incomes, inequality, and poverty in Kenya : a long-term perspective / Arne Bigsten, Damiano Kulundu Manda, Germano Mwabu, and Anthony Wambugu ; 16. Utility-consistent poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10 : snapshots in the presence of multiple economy-wide shocks / David Stifel, Tiaray Razafimanantena, and Faly Rakotomanana ; 17. Poverty, inequality, and prices in post-apartheid South Africa / Murray Leibbrandt, Arden Finn, and Morné Oosthuizen
  • Part 4: Low information countries. 18. Growth and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo : 2001-13 / Kristi Mahrt and Malokele Nanivazo.

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