TY - BOOK ID - 84540870 TI - Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa AU - Moser, Gary. AU - Ichida, Toshihiro. PY - 2001 SN - 1462309569 1452727023 1282110055 1451899033 9786613802941 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Social Services and Welfare KW - Poverty and Homelessness KW - Health Behavior KW - General Welfare KW - Economic Development: General KW - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions KW - Health: General KW - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General KW - Education: General KW - Government Policy KW - Provision and Effects of Welfare Program KW - Health economics KW - Poverty & precarity KW - Education KW - Social welfare & social services KW - Personal income KW - Health KW - Poverty KW - Poverty reduction KW - National accounts KW - Income KW - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84540870 AB - This study confirms a strong and robust relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Employing a panel of 46 countries covering the period 1972-97, the analysis finds that a 10 percent increase in per capita GDP leads to a 1 percent increase in life expectancy, a 3-4 percent decline in infant mortality rates, and a 3½-4 percent increase in the rate of gross primary school enrollment. The results are robust for high- and low-income, as well as fast- and slow-growth, countries. The study also finds that quality of growth, civil conflict, HIV/AIDs, civil and institutional freedom, and island economies are important control variables that help explain the variability of poverty across Africa. A country's latitude is not found to be a significant factor explaining life expectancy or infant mortality rates, though it is a significant factor explaining gross primary school enrollments. ER -