Public Policy Strategies for Poverty Alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Inclusive Approach

In retrospect, the poverty problem has deepened in many Sub-Saharan African countries in the last several decades, underpinning the region’s inability to sustain peace and stability, and in the process threatening years of development post-independence. This worsening situation is reflected in the HDI of the sub-continent which is on the lowest bracket in the global league. Subsequently, most of the countries have formulated and embarked on poverty reduction strategies in order to eradicate the status of “extremely poor” and also to receive debt forgiveness from the multi-lateral as well as bilateral organizations. Nevertheless, the effects of these endeavors have been mixed. This paper aims at identifying the status of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and qualitatively look at the modern policies that keep the problem alive today. What it enshrines is an elaborate strategy for poverty eradication, which puts emphasis on a consultative process for addressing the plight of extreme poverty in the region.