Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015?

Bigsten, Arne; Shimeles, Abebe

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2007.00364.x

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“…While sustained growth is central to the reduction of poverty in countries such as Ethiopia (Bigsten and Shimeles, 2007), the possibility that poverty spells caused by short-lived shocks may persist is clearly a cause for concern. Safety nets that keep households out of poverty would have significant poverty reducing as well as growth enhancing effects (Baulch and Hoddinott, 2000;Barrett et al, 2006).…”

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Poverty Transition and Persistence in Ethiopia: 1994–2004

Bigsten

Shimeles

2008

World Development

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SummaryThis study analyses the persistence of poverty in both rural and urban areas in Ethiopia during 1994Ethiopia during -2004. The key finding is that households move frequently in and out of poverty but the difficulty of exiting from poverty like the chance of avoiding slipping back increases with the time spent in that state and varies considerably between male and female headed households. Our results imply that it is important to design anti-poverty policies both to hinder households to slip into extreme poverty and to minimize the length of the poverty spell for households once they have fallen into it

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Poverty Transition and Persistence in Ethiopia: 1994–2004

Bigsten

Shimeles

2008

World Development

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“…The effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty is strongly linked to inequality, since the elasticity of poverty reduction with regard to growth falls with the degree of inequality (Ravallion 2001;Bigsten et al 2003;Bigsten and Shimeles 2007;McKay and Perge 2009;Fosu 2009). Duclos and O'Connell (2009) argue that a development trap exists when low incomes hold back growth for an extended period of time.…”

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Dimensions of African Inequality

Bigsten¹

2014

The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics

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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the relationship between inequality and growth, the role of agriculture in the development process, the relationships between ethnicity and social stratification and governance, and external influences on inequality. The paper concludes with some comments on what policy interventions can do to reduce inequality.

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“…Poor people are often excluded from participating in social, economic and political areas of life, since these processes do not necessarily involve harmony, but rather define how power is utilised. Therefore, when one looks critically at social development, there is a need to analyse it together with the existing social structure (Bigsten and Shimeles 2007).Supporting this argument, Ferguson argues that African development cannot be discussed in isolation from the modernisation narrative (Ferguson 2008). He further points out that African people's lives inhabit a social landscape shaped by modernist projects.…”

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Contemporary concerns in development studies: Perspectives from Tanzania and Zambia

Kilonzo¹,

Kontinen²

2015

Publications of the Department of Political and Economic Studies. Development Studies

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As part of the institutionalization of "development" after the Second World War, academia has witnessed emergence of the discipline of development studies. The five decades of the discipline have testified a number of theoretical shifts in considering how to conceptualize the very notion of development, and how to make sense out of the global processes and inequalities. Additionally, the place of development studies within the disciplinary landscape of academia has been continuously debated. Moreover, as a discipline, development studies have had more or less close connections with development policy and practice. Many strands of development studies have contributed to defining the pertinent development problems, and generating suggestions on the ways in which to address these problems.In this edited volume we would like to take some distance from on one hand, the development problems, and on the other, the abstract theoretical discourses of development. That is why we have selected to address the "concerns" of development studies. We are inspired by development studies being both embedded in theory and having concern on the societal and natural phenomena that contribute to inequalities and human well-being. Concerns, in this volume, refer to development-related puzzles that call for theoretically-informed investigation, and empirically-grounded ideas on how to address these concerns.Without doubt, the concept of development is a point of departure for the discipline. The central concern in development studies has been to research development processes as affected by array of factors in order to understand the underlying forces. Regardless of time and resources spent so far in development aspects, development studies is still experiencing unsolved challenges, which we refer as "concerns" including: rapid urbanization, political instability, gender inequality, food insecurity, poor governance, global technological gaps, spiraling levels of poverty and unequal distribution of financial and other resources.These concerns still exist partly because they are addressed in isolation with individual disciplines. For example, the economists deal with poverty in economic point of view i.e. following economic growth standards as their main concern. On the other hand, sociologists address development concerns using sociological lenses without considering other areas like political science, geography and rural development, while all these are areas in development studies. Anthropology has had an ambiguous relationship with development and its interventionists pursues. The agricultural sciences, 8 forestry, geology, biology and the like add to the complexity of approaches, not to mention the computer sciences and its possibilities in dealing with so-called big data now increasingly available also in developing world.The contemporary concerns in development studies in this volume are identified and discussed mainly by development scholars with first-hand experience of development. Too often, development studies publications pr...

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Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015?

Cited by 33 publications

References 28 publications

Poverty Transition and Persistence in Ethiopia: 1994–2004

Poverty Transition and Persistence in Ethiopia: 1994–2004

Dimensions of African Inequality

Contemporary concerns in development studies: Perspectives from Tanzania and Zambia

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