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Titolo |
Growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa / / Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp [[electronic resource]] |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-180595-5 |
0-19-106223-5 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxxii, 466 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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UNU-WIDER studies in development economics |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic development - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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This edition previously issued in print: 2016. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 2: Synthesis: Two Cheers for the African Growth Renaissance (but not Three) -- Part 1. Rapid Growth and Rapid Poverty Reduction -- 3: Poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11: Welfare Improvements in a Changing Economic Landscape -- 4: Ghana: Poverty Reduction over Thirty Years -- 5: Did Rapid Smallholder-Led Agricultural Growth Fail to Reduce Rural Poverty? Making Sense of Malawiś Poverty Puzzle -- 6: Growth, Poverty Reduction, and Inequality in Rwanda -- 7: Poverty and its Dynamics in Uganda: Explorations Using a New Set of Poverty Lines -- Part 2. Rapid Growth but Limited Poverty Reduction -- 8: Burkina Faso: Shipping around the Malthusian Trap -- 9: Mozambique: Off-track or Temporarily Sidelined? -- 10: Spatial and Temporal Multidimensional Poverty in Nigeria -- |
11: Growth and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania -- 12: Assessing Progress in Welfare Improvements in Zambia: A Multidimensional Approach -- Part 3. Uninspiring/Negative Growth and Poverty Reduction -- 13: Slow Progress in Growth and Poverty Reduction in Cameroon -- 14: The Fall of the Elephant: Two Decades of Poverty Increase in Cote d'Ivoire, 1988-2008 -- 15: Incomes, Inequality, and Poverty in Kenya: A Long-Term Perspective -- 16: Utility-Consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10: Snapshots in the Presence of Multiple Economy-Wide Shocks -- 17: Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Post- |
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Apartheid South Africa -- Part 4. Low-Information Countries -- 18: Growth and Poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo: 2001 through 2013. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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