Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Finn Tarp; Channing Arndt; Andy McKay

• ISBN13: 9780191062230
• ISBN10: 0191062235
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2016-04-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic UK

Author Biography

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)

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.

Table of Contents

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