The report, Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa, says the share of Africans living in extreme poverty has fallen substantially—from 54% in 1990 to 41% in 2015—but due to high population growth during the same period, the number of poor people in Africa has actually increased from 278 million in 1990 to 413 million in 2015.

2024年3月5日 · Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced low economic growth per capita, a very slow decline in poverty incidence, and the number of people living in extreme poverty has been rising steadily. As a result, extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in this region.

2022年12月23日 · Accelerating the pace of poverty reduction is a complex and difficult task. Instead of comprehensively analyzing the global poverty trend, this article discusses two major challenges...

The report, Leveling the Playing Field – Addressing Structural Inequalities to Accelerate Poverty Reduction in Africa, argues that broadening people’s access to jobs and public services represents one of Africa’s best prospects for accelerating poverty reduction and maps out a framework that can help economies remove barriers to ...

The results indicate that, as countries become less poor, inequality-reducing policies are likely to become relatively more efective for poverty reduction than growth-promoting policies. The results indicate that the growth elasticity of poverty reduction either increases or remains constant with the level of initial poverty.

2019年3月4日 · To accelerate the end of poverty, African states should focus on developing enough capability for designing and delivering poverty reduction strategies. Implementing these reforms is vital. After all, improving the quality of government is not only important to accelerating poverty reduction.

1.1 The poverty rate in Africa has gone down, but the number of African people living in poverty has increased 1.2 Africa cannot eradicate poverty by 2030 but can accelerate poverty reduction B1.1.1 African countries’ poverty status can now be estimated from recent household surveys

Poverty rates are especially high in fragile and conflict-affected areas; rising resource dependence challenges governance quality; and fiscal space is tightening again, while many poverty in-vestments will only pay off in the future. This is the backdrop for Africa’s poverty reduction in the decade ahead and the subject of this report. No data

2018年11月19日 · Using limits of $1.25 and $2 per person per day, we found that poverty tended to decrease faster in countries that started out poorer. But these findings, while positive, tell only part of the story. In many countries, the end of poverty remains a distant goal.

• Put the poor directly in the driver’s seat of poverty reduction by focusing on raising their income directly. • Strive for capturing synergies from better integration of interventions. • Leverage and leapfrog with technology to the maximum extent.