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Author:   Channing Arndt (Senior Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University) ,  Andy McKay (Professor of Development Economics, University of Sussex) ,  Finn Tarp (Chair, Development Economics, University of Copenhagen; Director, UN University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER))
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.868kg
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9780198744795

ISBN 10:   019874479
Pages:   500
Publication Date:   14 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa 2: Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp: Synthesis: Two Cheers for the African Growth Renaissance (but not three) GROUP 1: Rapid Growth and Rapid Poverty Reduction 3: David Stifel and Tassew Woldehanna: Poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11: Welfare Improvements in a Changing Economic Landscape 4: Andy McKay, Jukka Pirttilä, and Finn Tarp: Ghana: Poverty Reduction over Thirty Years 5: Karl Pauw, Ulrik Beck, and Richard Mussa: Did Rapid Smallholder-led Agricultural Growth Fail to Reduce Rural Poverty? Making Sense of Malawi's Poverty Puzzle 6: Andy McKay and Marijke Verpoorten: Growth, Poverty Reduction, and Inequality in Rwanda 7: Bjorn Van Campenhout, Haruna Sekabira, and Dede Houeto Aduayom: Poverty and its Dynamics in Uganda: Explorations using a New Set of Poverty Lines GROUP 2: Rapid Growth but Limited Poverty Reduction 8: Michael Grimm, Claude Wetta, and Aude Nikiema: Burkina Faso: Shipping Around the Malthusian Trap 9: Channing Arndt, E. Samuel Jones, and Finn Tarp: Mozambique: Off-track or Temporarily Sidelined? 10: Olu Ajakaiye, Afeikhena T. Jerome, Olanrewaju Olaniyan, Kristi Mahrt, and Olufunke A. Alaba: Spatial and Temporal Multidimensional Poverty in Nigeria 11: Channing Arndt, Lionel Demery, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp: Growth and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania 12: Gibson Masumbu and Kristi Mahrt: Assessing Progress in Welfare Improvements in Zambia: A Multidimensional Approach GROUP 3: Uninspiring/Negative Growth and Poverty Reduction 13: Samuel Fambon, Andy McKay, Joseph-Pierre Timnou, Olive Stéphanie Kouakep, Anaclet Désiré Dzossa, and Romain Tchakoute Ngoho: Slow Progress in Growth and Poverty Reduction in Cameroon 14: Denis Cogneau, Kenneth Houngbedji, and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps: The Fall of the Elephant: Two Decades of Poverty Increase in Côte d'Ivoire, 1988-2008 15: Arne Bigsten, Damiano Kulundu Manda, Germano Mwabu, and Anthony Wambugu: Incomes, Inequality, and Poverty in Kenya: A Long-Term Perspective 16: David Stifel, Tiaray Razafimanantena, and Faly Rakotomanana: Utility-Consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10: Snapshots in the Presence of Multiple Economy-Wide Shocks 17: Murray Leibbrandt, Arden Finn, and Morné Oosthuizen: Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Post-Apartheid South Africa GROUP 4: Low Information Countries 18: Kristi Mahrt and Malokele Nanivazo: Growth and Poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo: 2001-13

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This book provides the appropriate balance in the analysis of the links between two decades of growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on very comprehensive and excellent country studies, it is able to show a lot more clearly than others the mainly positive effects of the recent African growth experience. The book brings together good country data, excellent analyses, and solid understanding of local contexts. * Ernest Aryeetey Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana * Africa has been a puzzle for development specialists for well over half a century. From the post-Independence euphoria, when sub-Saharan Africa outperformed Southeast Asia, to the grim reality of failed industrialization strategies and the pain of structural adjustment during the commodity bust of the 1980s and 1990s, to the resurgence of growth after the turn of the Millennium, the Continent has resisted easy answers to even simple questions: are living standards rising or falling? Is economic growth finally having an impact on rural poverty? This volume provides the best possible answers to these questions, * C. Peter Timmer, Harvard University, emeritus * This book provides the appropriate balance in the analysis of the links between two decades of growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on very comprehensive and excellent country studies, it is able to show a lot more clearly than others the mainly positive effects of the recent African growth experience. The book brings together good country data, excellent analyses, and solid understanding of local contexts. * Ernest Aryeetey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana * This book masterfully combines macroeconomic, microeconomic, and case study approaches in analyzing the complex relationship between growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. It avoids the all-too-common simplistic characterizations of the continent, and instead weaves a balanced, nuanced, and informative narrative of where things have gone relatively well, where they have not, and the multiple forces behind these trends. This book is a must read for all serious scholars and analysts of economic development in Africa. * Steven Radelet, Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development and Director of the Global Human Development Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University *

This book masterfully combines macroeconomic, microeconomic, and case study approaches in analyzing the complex relationship between growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. It avoids the all-too-common simplistic characterizations of the continent, and instead weaves a balanced, nuanced, and informative narrative of where things have gone relatively well, where they have not, and the multiple forces behind these trends. This book is a must read for all serious scholars and analysts of economic development in Africa. * Steven Radelet, Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development and Director of the Global Human Development Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University * This book provides the appropriate balance in the analysis of the links between two decades of growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on very comprehensive and excellent country studies, it is able to show a lot more clearly than others the mainly positive effects of the recent African growth experience. The book brings together good country data, excellent analyses, and solid understanding of local contexts. * Ernest Aryeetey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana * Africa has been a puzzle for development specialists for well over half a century. From the post-Independence euphoria, when sub-Saharan Africa outperformed Southeast Asia, to the grim reality of failed industrialization strategies and the pain of structural adjustment during the commodity bust of the 1980s and 1990s, to the resurgence of growth after the turn of the Millennium, the Continent has resisted easy answers to even simple questions: are living standards rising or falling? Is economic growth finally having an impact on rural poverty? This volume provides the best possible answers to these questions, * C. Peter Timmer, Harvard University, emeritus * This book provides the appropriate balance in the analysis of the links between two decades of growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on very comprehensive and excellent country studies, it is able to show a lot more clearly than others the mainly positive effects of the recent African growth experience. The book brings together good country data, excellent analyses, and solid understanding of local contexts. * Ernest Aryeetey Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana *

This book provides the appropriate balance in the analysis of the links between two decades of growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on very comprehensive and excellent country studies, it is able to show a lot more clearly than others the mainly positive effects of the recent African growth experience. The book brings together good country data, excellent analyses, and solid understanding of local contexts. Ernest Aryeetey Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana Africa has been a puzzle for development specialists for well over half a century. From the post-Independence euphoria, when sub-Saharan Africa outperformed Southeast Asia, to the grim reality of failed industrialization strategies and the pain of structural adjustment during the commodity bust of the 1980s and 1990s, to the resurgence of growth after the turn of the Millennium, the Continent has resisted easy answers to even simple questions: are living standards rising or falling? Is economic growth finally having an impact on rural poverty? This volume provides the best possible answers to these questions, C. Peter Timmer, Harvard University, emeritus This book provides the appropriate balance in the analysis of the links between two decades of growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on very comprehensive and excellent country studies, it is able to show a lot more clearly than others the mainly positive effects of the recent African growth experience. The book brings together good country data, excellent analyses, and solid understanding of local contexts. Ernest Aryeetey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana This book masterfully combines macroeconomic, microeconomic, and case study approaches in analyzing the complex relationship between growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. It avoids the all-too-common simplistic characterizations of the continent, and instead weaves a balanced, nuanced, and informative narrative of where things have gone relatively well, where they have not, and the multiple forces behind these trends. This book is a must read for all serious scholars and analysts of economic development in Africa. Steven Radelet, Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development and Director of the Global Human Development Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

This book provides the appropriate balance in the analysis of the links between two decades of growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on very comprehensive and excellent country studies, it is able to show a lot more clearly than others the mainly positive effects of the recent African growth experience. The book brings together good country data, excellent analyses, and solid understanding of local contexts. * Ernest Aryeetey Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana * Africa has been a puzzle for development specialists for well over half a century. From the post-Independence euphoria, when sub-Saharan Africa outperformed Southeast Asia, to the grim reality of failed industrialization strategies and the pain of structural adjustment during the commodity bust of the 1980s and 1990s, to the resurgence of growth after the turn of the Millennium, the Continent has resisted easy answers to even simple questions: are living standards rising or falling? Is economic growth finally having an impact on rural poverty? This volume provides the best possible answers to these questions, * C. Peter Timmer, Harvard University, emeritus * This book provides the appropriate balance in the analysis of the links between two decades of growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on very comprehensive and excellent country studies, it is able to show a lot more clearly than others the mainly positive effects of the recent African growth experience. The book brings together good country data, excellent analyses, and solid understanding of local contexts. * Ernest Aryeetey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana * This book masterfully combines macroeconomic, microeconomic, and case study approaches in analyzing the complex relationship between growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. It avoids the all-too-common simplistic characterizations of the continent, and instead weaves a balanced, nuanced, and informative narrative of where things have gone relatively well, where they have not, and the multiple forces behind these trends. This book is a must read for all serious scholars and analysts of economic development in Africa. * Steven Radelet, Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development and Director of the Global Human Development Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University *

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Channing Arndt has more than 20 years of experience in development economics with seven years combined resident experience in Morocco and Mozambique. He has published more than 55 articles in leading academic journals and has taken leadership roles in major policy documents such as the design of a carbon tax for the National Treasury of South Africa, the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change for the World Bank, and the Second and Third National Poverty Assessments for the Government of Mozambique. His program of research has focused on agricultural development, poverty measurement, poverty alleviation and growth, market integration, gender and discrimination, the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, technological change, trade policy, aid effectiveness, infrastructure investment, energy and biofuels, climate variability, and the implications of climate change. Andy McKay is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Sussex where he teaches masters and PhD students in different fields of development economics. He has recently become managing editor of the Review of Development Economics; and is closely associated with the African Economic Research Consortium as a resource person and as co-coordinator of their collaborative project on the growth-poverty nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa. He was associate director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre from 2005-2011; he recently obtained research grants for two projects looking at female labour supply in relation to poverty reduction, much of this in Sub-Saharan Africa. Finn Tarp is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Copenhagen and Director of the UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). He has more than 35 years of experience in academic and applied development economics, including 20 years of work in some 35 developing countries. He is a leading international expert on issues of development strategy and foreign aid and he was appointed to the Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) advising the Chief Economist of the World Bank in 2013.

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