Poverty reduction in Africa

Poverty in Africa has been rising for the last quarter-century while it has been falling in

the rest of the developing world. Africa’s distinctive problem is that its economies have

not been growing. The paper attempts to synthesize a range of recent research to account

for this failure of the growth process. It argues that the reasons lie not in African

peculiarities but rather in geographic features which globally cause problems but which

are disproportionately pronounced in Africa. These features interact to create three

distinct challenges that are likely to require international interventions beyond the

conventional reliance upon aid.

Read the paper: Poverty Reduction in Africa by Paul Collier,

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