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1 online resource (527 pages) |
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Part I. Introduction""; ""1. Poverty in Africa: An Overview""; ""Context and scope""; ""Organization of the book""; ""Summary and overall findings""; ""Part II. Identification and Measurement of Poverty""; ""2. Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice""; ""Introduction""; ""Poverty lines in theory""; ""Objective poverty lines""; ""Subjective poverty lines""; ""Poverty lines found in practice""; ""Conclusions"" |
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""3. The State of Rural Poverty, Income Distribution and Rural Development in SSA""""Introduction""; ""The rural sector in SSA: A profile""; ""Factors influencing SSA rural sector development path""; ""Conclusions and some policy implications""; ""4. Poverty, Inequality, and Economic Well-Being: African Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective""; ""Introduction""; ""Inequality""; ""Poverty""; ""Economic well-being""; ""Conclusions""; ""5. Poverty Analysis within a General Equilibrium Framework""; ""Introduction""; ""Social accounting, income distribution and poverty"" |
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""The overall conceptual framework""""Classification and disaggregation of accounts""; ""Data requirements in the construction of a SAM""; ""SAM multiplier analysis and application to an African archetype economy""; ""General equilibrium models, income distribution and poverty""; ""Income distribution, poverty and poverty measurement""; ""Model description""; ""Simulation results""; ""Simulation 2: Import tariff reform""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part III. Poverty and Economic Reform""; ""6. Adjustment, Income Distribution and Poverty in Africa: A Research Guide""; ""The evolution of the debate"" |
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""Methodological issues""""The evidence on SAPs and poverty in Africa""; ""Protecting the poor in SAPs""; ""Summary and conclusion""; ""7. Gender, Poverty and Economic Reform in Africa""; ""Introduction""; ""Consumption: Are women poorer than men?""; ""Production: The gender division of labour""; ""Modelling the determinants of differences in consumption and production""; ""Gender and Structural Adjustment""; ""Gender-disaggregated statistics and research""; ""Conclusion""; ""8. Fiscal Incidence in Africa: Microeconomic Evidence""; ""Introduction""; ""Methods""; ""Results"" |
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""Summary and Conclusions""""Part IV. Labour Markets and Human Capital""; ""9. Labour Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa""; ""Introduction""; ""Labour data""; ""Labour force growth""; ""The structure of labour markets""; ""The structure and determinants of wages""; ""Migration""; ""Labour supply""; ""Determination of aggregate employment""; ""Changes in labour market institutions and labour market policies""; ""Concluding remarks""; ""10. Empirical Modelling of Investment in Health and Nutrition""; ""Introduction""; ""Modelling health (and other human capital) investments"" |
| Summary |
Poverty reduction is the overarching challenge of the African development agenda in the 21st Century. The majority of the African people today continue to live in poverty, as they did for decades in the previous century. The design of effective strategies to fight poverty in Africa has been hampered by lack of credible information on incidence, depth and severity of poverty and by non-availability of methods for policy analysis |
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Poverty in Africa: Analytical and Policy Perspectives presents comprehensive information about the extent of poverty in Africa, the institutional constraints to poverty reduction, and the methods for measuring poverty and evaluating alternative anti-poverty measures. This volume offers a range of new tools for monitoring poverty and assessing impacts of anti-poverty programs. Although poverty reduction in Africa has been a daunting task for years, the approaches to poverty analysis presented in this book now make that task much more manageable |
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This volume adds value to the existing literature by presenting concepts and methods for poverty analysis in a single source and by documenting them for students, scholars and policy-makers, especially those in Africa where the challenge of poverty reduction is greatest. --Book Jacket |
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""Measurement of health"" |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Poverty -- Africa
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Poverty
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mwabu, Germano M.
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| ISBN |
9789966792006 |
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9966792007 |
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