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Book Book Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue
Title:Poverty in Africa: analytical and policy perspectives
Editors:Fosu, Augustin KwasiISNI
Mwabu, Germano M.ISNI
Thorbecke, ErikISNI
Year:2009
Pages:504
Language:English
City of publisher:Nairobi
Publisher:University of Nairobi Press
ISBN:996684662X; 9789966846624
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:poverty
income
labour market
Abstract:This volume presents information on the extent of poverty in Africa, the institutional constraints to poverty reduction, and methods for measuring poverty and evaluating the effectiveness of antipoverty policies. The volume deals mainly with income poverty and only with the money metric dimensions of poverty. Part 1 comprises the introduction (Augustin Fosu, Germano Mwabu and Erik Thorbecke). Part 2 deals with the construction of poverty lines (Martin Ravallion), the measurement of poverty and inequality (Ali Ali and Erik Thorbecke on poverty and income distribution; Gary Fields on poverty, inequality and economic well-being), and general equilibrium analysis (Bernard Decaluwe, A. Patry, L. Savard and Erik Thorbecke). Part 3 examines the nexus between poverty and economic reform (Tony Killick on the nexus between research, policy reforms and welfare outcomes; Simon Appleton, Paul Collier and John Mackinnon on the interrelationship between gender, poverty and economic reform; David Sahn and Stephen Younger on fiscal incidence and the extent to which different kinds of taxes and expenditures have succeeded in transferring resources to the poor). Part 4 analyses labour markets (Arne Bigsten and Susan Horton) and human capital formation in Africa (John Strauss and Duncan Thomas) and the relationship between stabilization policies, poverty and the labour market (Richard Agenor). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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