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Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Did the Walk Match the Talk under the PRSP Approach?

By Daouda Sembene

June 12, 2015

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Daouda Sembene. Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Did the Walk Match the Talk under the PRSP Approach?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed December 21, 2024
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Summary

Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have shown strong signs of growth resilience in the aftermath of the recent global crisis. Yet, this paper finds evidence that growth has more than proportionately benefited the top quintile during PRSP implementation. It finds that PRSP implementation has neither reduced poverty headcount nor raised the income share of the poorest quintile in Sub-Saharan Africa. While countries in other regions have been more successful in reducing poverty and increasing the income share of the poor, there is no conclusive evidence that PRSP implementation has played a role in shaping these outcomes.

Subject: Income inequality, National accounts, Personal income, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy

Keywords: Africa, Global, Growth, Income inequality, Inequality, Personal income, Poverty, Poverty incidence, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction strategy, PRSP, PRSP approach, PRSP countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, PRSP countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, PRSP country, PRSP dummy, PRSP experience, PRSP implementation, PRSP process, PRSP sourcebook, Sub-Saharan Africa, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    37

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2015/122

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2015122

  • ISBN:

    9781513520773

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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