Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Progress in a Global Context

By A. Fosu. 2015

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Foreign Aid and Inclusive Development: Updated Evidence from Africa, 2005-2012 (2017, neutral): “high initial levels of inequality limit the effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty while growing inequality increases poverty directly for a given level of growth” (Fosu, 2011, p. 11). We do not resist the need to provide some discussion on the ambiguous results from action on debt. According t”
The Mobile Phone in the Diffusion of Knowledge for Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016, neutral): “The immiserizing growth in the sub-region has also motivated a recent stream of institutional literature, notably, some recent books by: (i) Fosu (2015bc) on the nexus between growth and institutions in African development which aims to elicit whether the recent growth resurgence experienced by the…”
Educational quality thresholds in the diffusion of knowledge with mobile phones for inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa (2018, neutral): “This region is experiencing limited development outcomes, despite enjoying more than two decades of growth resurgence (Fosu, 2015a, p.44).”
Dynamic linkages between poverty, inequality, crime, and social expenditures in a panel of 16 countries: two-step GMM estimates (2020, background): “Fosu (2015) examined the relationship between GIP triangle in sub-Saharan African countries and found that as a whole, South African countries lag behind the BICR (Brazil, India, China and Russia) group of countries; however, many of them in sub-Saharan African countries have outperformed India.”
Information Asymmetry and Financial Development Dynamics in Africa (2016, positive): “According to the report, many countries in the continent are off-track from attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) extreme poverty target (Caulderwood, 2015; World Bank, 2015), despite over two decades of growth resurgence that began in the mid-1990s (Fosu, 2015, p. 44).”
Inequality and gender economic inclusion: The moderating role of financial access in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020, background): “Accordingly, many countries in the sub-region did not achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) extreme povety target (Ncube, Anyanwu & Hausken, 2014; Fosu, 2015; Asongu, 2018).”
The Role of Governance in Mobile Phones for Inclusive Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016, neutral): “In essence, exclusive growth in Africa and the role of institutions in Africa’s growth resurgence have motivated a recent book by Fosu (2015ab) that is focused on assessing whether the recent growth resurgence experienced by the continent from the mid-1990s (Fosu, 2015c, p. 44) is a myth.”
The Role of Information Sharing in Modulating the Effect of Financial Access on Inequality (2019, background): “Consistent with this report, several nations in the continent failed to meet the extreme poverty target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), despite a growth recovery of more than two decades that started in the mid-1990s (Fosu, 2015).”
Can Extreme Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa be Eliminated by 2030? (2017, background): “Second, as Fosu (2015a) and Simpasa et al. (2016) show, relative to other regions of the world, African poverty reduction has shown low responsiveness to growth, in part because of higher population growth.”
Reinventing Foreign Aid for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Kuznets, Piketty and the Great Policy Reversal (2016, positive): “With stylized facts substantiating “immiserizing growth” (Bhagwati, 1958)5, a growing stream of the literature provides strong support for the crucial role of inequality in poverty-growth transformation (Adams, 2004; Fosu, 2011, 2014; Kalwij & Verschoor, 2007; Thorbecke, 2013).”
Environmental Degradation, ICT and Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017, background): “Considering these points in detail, we can note that SSA has recently experienced over two decades of growth resurgence after decades lost in the quest for economic development (see Fosu, 2015), partly due to the ineffective formulation and failed implementation of Structural Adjustment Programmes.”