Growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa / / Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxii, 466 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 338.967
• Soggetto topico: Economic development - Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Soggetto geografico: Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic conditions
• Persona (resp. second.): ArndtChanning; McKayAndy <1973->; TarpFinn <1951->
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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-Apartheid South Africa -- Part 4. Low-Information Countries -- 18: Growth and Poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo: 2001 through 2013.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa
• ISBN: 0-19-180595-5; 0-19-106223-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136793203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: UNU-WIDER studies in development economics.