Inequality and the Impact of Growth on Poverty: Comparative Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa

By A. Fosu. 2009

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Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Progress in a Global Context (2015, methodology): “12 For further estimation details, see Fosu (2011). 13 I restrict my analysis here to $1.”
The (Evolving) Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction: An Empirical Perspective (2011, background): “Initial inequality dampens the poverty-reducing effects of overall growth (Ravallion 2001; Adams 2004; Fosu 2009).”
Reinventing Foreign Aid for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Kuznets, Piketty and the Great Policy Reversal (2016, unknown): “These studies range from African economies (Fosu, 2008, 2009, 2010a, 2010b) to a global sample of developing nations (Fosu, 2010c).”
Foreign Aid and Inclusive Development: Updated Evidence from Africa, 2005-2012 (2017, unknown): “The underlying need to place more emphasis on inequality as opposed to growth has also been documented for the sampled countries by Fosu (2008, 2009, 2010abc, 2011).”
Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence (2017, methodology): “…contributed to improving human development, particularly poverty reduction, it is crucial to understand the role of (income) inequality in the growth-poverty nexus (e.g., Bourguignon, 2003 ; Epaulard, 2003 ; Fosu, 2009 ; Kalwij and Verschoor, 2007 ; Ravallion, 1997 ; World Bank, 2006a, 2006b ).”
Recent trends in inequality and poverty in developing countries (2013, background): “However, Fosu (2009) highlights the considerable heterogeneity across country experiences.”
Inequality, Economic Growth and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (2014, background): “Similar positive and significant effects have been found by Ali and Tahir (1999) and Saboor (2004) for Pakistan; Ravallion and Chen (1997), Adams (2004), and Ram (2007) in crosscountry studies; Wodon (1999) for Bangladesh; Lombardo (2008) for Italy; Deolalikar (2002) for Thailand; Fosu (2009) for Su”