| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15775 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15775 |
| African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think! | |
| Xavier Sala-i-Martin; Maxim Pinkovskiy | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-02-25 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the poverty Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of people with incomes less than one dollar a day will be achieved on time; (3) the growth spurt that began in 1995 decreased African income inequality instead of increasing it; (4) African poverty reduction is remarkably general: it cannot be explained by a large country, or even by a single set of countries possessing some beneficial geographical or historical characteristic. All classes of countries, including those with disadvantageous geography and history, experience reductions in poverty. In particular, poverty fell for both landlocked as well as coastal countries; for mineral-rich as well as mineral-poor countries; for countries with favorable or with unfavorable agriculture; for countries regardless of colonial origin; and for countries with below- or above-median slave exports per capita during the African slave trade. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15775 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573449 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xavier Sala-i-Martin,Maxim Pinkovskiy. African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think!. 2010. |
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