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Gender, Growth, and Poverty Reduction: Special Program of Assistance for Africa, 1998 Status Report on Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Blackden, C.M.
  • Bhanu, C.

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Comparison between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and East Asia indicates that gender inequality in education and employment is estimated to have reduced SSA's per capita growth in the 1960-92 period by 0.8 percentage points per year. Therefore reducing gender-based asset inequality in SSA is an important development goal. This report documents the structural role of men and women in African economies and examines the linkages between the market and the household. It makes a convincing case that reducing gender inequality would increase growth, efficiency, and welfare. The authors make key recommendations for public policy intervention in the areas of participation, investment in the household economy, investment in human capital, support for rural livelihood strategies, and engendering statistics and poverty monitoring.

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  • Blackden, C.M. & Bhanu, C., 1999. "Gender, Growth, and Poverty Reduction: Special Program of Assistance for Africa, 1998 Status Report on Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa," Papers 428, World Bank - Technical Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:wobate:428
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    1. Bisseleua, D.H.B. & Idrissou, L. & Ogunniyi, A. & Atta-Krah, K., 2018. "Diversification and livelihood strategies in the cocoa belt of West Africa: The need for fundamental change," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 10, pages 73-79.

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    Keywords

    AFRICA ; GENDER ; ECONOMIC GROWTH ; POVERTY;
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    JEL classification:

    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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