Africa is on time

被引:56
作者
Pinkovskiy, Maxim [1 ]
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Fed Reserve Bank New York, New York, NY 10045 USA
[2] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[3] NBER, New York, NY USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Economic growth; Poverty; Africa; WORLD;
D O I
10.1007/s10887-014-9103-y
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We present evidence that the recent African growth renaissance has reached Africa's poor. Using survey data on African income distributions and national accounts GDP, we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality indices for African countries for the period 1990-2011. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling rapidly; (2) the African countries for which good inequality data exists are set to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) poverty target on time. The entire continent except for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will reach the MDG in 2014, one year in advance, and adding the DRC will delay the MDG until 2018; (3) the growth spurt that began in 1995, if anything, decreased African income inequality instead of increasing it; (4) African poverty reduction is remarkably general: it 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. In particular, poverty fell for both landlocked as well as coastal countries; for mineral-rich as well as mineral-poor countries; for countries with favorable or with unfavorable agriculture; for countries regardless of colonial origin; and for countries with below- or above-median slave exports per capita during the African slave trade.
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页码:311 / 338
页数:28
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