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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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To: TimF who wrote (1077)12/11/2010 1:51:39 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 1267
 
VoxEu: African poverty is falling…much faster than you think

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Conclusions
Our main conclusion is that Africa is reducing poverty, and doing it much faster than many thought.

The growth from the period 1995-2006, far from benefiting only the elites, has been sufficiently widely spread that both total African inequality and African within-country inequality actually declined over this period.

The speed at which Africa has reduced poverty since 1995 puts it on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty relative to 1990 by 2015 on time or, at worst, a couple of years late.

If the Democratic Republic of Congo converges to the African trend once it is stabilised, the MDG will be achieved by 2012, three years before the target date.

We also find that the African poverty reduction is remarkably general.

African poverty reduction cannot be explained by a large country, or even by a single set of countries possessing some beneficial geographical or historical characteristic.

All classes of countries, including those with disadvantageous geography and history, experience reductions in poverty.
This observation is particularly important because it shows that poor geography and history have not posed insurmountable obstacles to poverty reduction.

The lesson we draw is largely optimistic – even the most blighted parts of the poorest continent can set themselves firmly on the trend of limiting and even eradicating poverty within the space of a decade.

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