Can Africa Reduce Poverty by Half by 2015? The Case for a Pro-Poor Growth Strategy
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Keywords
Poverty; pro-poor growth; millennium development goals; Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2005-09-29 (Africa)
- NEP-CMP-2005-09-29 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2005-09-29 (Development)
- NEP-LTV-2005-09-29 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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