Publisher: Afrobarometer
Publication Date: May 25, 2009
Publisher Website: http://www.afrobarometer.org/
Language: en
Category: Africa, Advocacy and Research Groups, Sustainable Development, Economy, Business and Finance
During the first decade of the 21st century, sub-Saharan Africa experienced its strongest period of sustained growth in decades. Economic indicators were up, and with them, many indicators of poverty witnessed marked improvements. But to what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa’s record of economic growth made a material difference in the everyday lives of ordinary Africans? And to what extent have these region-wide trends been broadly shared across all countries? To examine these and other questions, we turn to an experiential measure of “lived poverty” that captures a portion of the central core of the concept of poverty that is not well captured by existing measures, and thus offers an important complement to official statistics on poverty and development.
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