Wodon, Quentin2012-06-012012-06-0120070-8213-6629-7https://hdl.handle.net/10986/6875The objective of this volume is to assess the relationships between growth and poverty reduction on the basis of a number of case studies, all but one of which are based on recent household survey data. The first part of the volume presents data on Ghana and Senegal, two countries that have benefited from high levels of growth over the last dozen years. The analysis suggests that growth led to substantial reductions in the share of the population in poverty. Yet growth could not be said to be "pro-poor" because the gains in consumption for better off households were proportionately larger than the gains for poorer households. In the second part of the volume, case studies for Burkina Faso and Cape Verde are presented to solve the paradox of high growth without poverty reduction. It was initially believed in both countries that there had been no poverty reduction despite high growth during the 1990s. Yet a closer examination of the data suggests that this paradox was actually due to measurement errors: more careful work confirmed that poverty reduction was substantial. The third and last part of the volume presents case studies for Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria on the impediments to growth, with a focus on the negative impact of conflict and macroeconomic volatility on growth, and thereby on poverty. Overall, this volume makes a strong case for the positive impact of growth for the reduction in income and consumption poverty in West Africa but it also points to the need to pay close attention to changes in inequality as such changes have limited the gains from growth for the poor in several of the countries considered here.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOABSOLUTE POVERTYACCESS TO EDUCATIONACCESS TO ELECTRICITYACCESS TO HEALTH CAREACCESS TO INFORMATIONAGGREGATE POVERTYAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONAGRICULTURAL SECTORASSET POVERTYAVERAGE LEVELBASIC NEEDSCASE STUDIESCHANGES IN POVERTYCIVIL WARCONFLICTCONSUMER PRICECONSUMER PRICE INDEXCONSUMER PRICESCONSUMPTION AGGREGATECONSUMPTION DATACONSUMPTION EXPENDITURECONSUMPTION PER CAPITACONSUMPTION POVERTYCUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTIONDATA SETSDETERMINANTS OF GROWTHDEVELOPING COUNTRIESDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICSDIETDIMENSIONS OF POVERTYDISSEMINATIONDISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTDIVERSIFICATIONDRINKING WATERECOLOGICAL ZONESECONOMIC ACTIVITIESECONOMIC ACTIVITYECONOMIC CONDITIONSECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMIC MANAGEMENTECONOMIC PERFORMANCEECONOMIC POLICYECONOMIC RECOVERYECONOMIC REFORMENROLMENT RATESEXTERNAL FACTORSEXTREME POVERTYEXTREME POVERTY LINEFARMERSFERTILITYFERTILITY RATESFISCAL POLICYFOOD COMMODITIESFOOD CONSUMPTIONFOOD CROPFOOD EXPENDITUREFOOD ITEMSFOOD POVERTYFOOD POVERTY LINEFOOD REQUIREMENTSGENDER DIFFERENTIALSGOVERNMENT SPENDINGGROWTH EFFECTGROWTH EFFECTSGROWTH RATEGROWTH RATESHEALTH CAREHEALTH CARE SERVICESHEALTH FACILITIESHIGH GROWTHHOSPITALHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTIONHOUSEHOLD HEADHOUSEHOLD INCOMEHOUSEHOLD INCOMESHOUSEHOLD LEVELHOUSEHOLD SURVEYHOUSEHOLD SURVEYSILL HEALTHILLNESSIMPACT OF CONFLICTINCIDENCE OF POVERTYINCOME GAPINCOME GROUPSINCOME QUINTILEINDUSTRIAL SECTORINEQUALITYINEQUALITY DYNAMICSINEQUALITY MEASURESINEQUALITY REDUCTIONINFLATIONLABOR MARKETLABOR MARKETSLACK OF DEVELOPMENTLEGAL STATUSLEVEL OF POVERTYLEVELS OF CONSUMPTIONLIFESTYLESLIVING CONDITIONSLIVING STANDARDSLIVING STANDARDS MEASURESMACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENTMACROECONOMIC INSTABILITYMACROECONOMIC POLICIESMACROECONOMIC VOLATILITYMEAN INCOMEMEAN VALUEMICRO DATAMIGRATIONMILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALNATIONAL ACCOUNTSNATIONAL LEVELNATIONAL POVERTYNEGATIVE IMPACTNUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDSPARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENTPATTERN OF CHANGEPER CAPITA CONSUMPTIONPER CAPITA GROWTHPERSISTENT POVERTYPOLICY STANCEPOLITICAL INSTABILITYPOLITICAL LIBERALIZATIONPOORPOOR COMMUNITIESPOORER GROUPSPOORER HOUSEHOLDSPOPULATION GROWTHPOPULATION SHAREPOPULATION SIZEPOTABLE WATERPOVERTY ASSESSMENTSPOVERTY CHANGEPOVERTY ESTIMATESPOVERTY GAPPOVERTY GAP INDEXPOVERTY HEADPOVERTY INCIDENCEPOVERTY INDICESPOVERTY LEVELSPOVERTY LINESPOVERTY MAPPOVERTY MEASUREMENTPOVERTY MEASURESPOVERTY REDUCTIONPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIESPOVERTY SEVERITYPRIVATE INVESTMENTPRIVATE SECTORPRO-POORPRO-POOR GROWTHPROGRESSPUBLIC INVESTMENTPUBLIC SECTORPUBLIC SPENDINGPURCHASING POWERQUALITY CONTROLRADIORAPID GROWTHREAL EXCHANGE RATEREDUCTION IN POVERTYREDUCTION OF POVERTYRELATIVE IMPORTANCEREMOTE REGIONSRURALRURAL AREASRURAL COMMUNITIESRURAL DIFFERENCESRURAL ELECTRIFICATIONRURAL HOUSEHOLDSRURAL INCOMESRURAL POORSCHOOL ENROLMENTSECONDARY SCHOOLSEXSHARP REDUCTIONSOCIAL SECURITYSTANDARD ERRORSSTANDARD OF LIVINGSUB-SAHARAN AFRICASUBSISTENCESUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTSUSTAINABLE POVERTYSUSTAINABLE POVERTY REDUCTIONTELEVISIONURBAN AREASURBAN COMMUNITIESVULNERABILITYWAGE EARNERSWARWELFARE INDICATORWELFARE INDICATORSWorld Bank10.1596/978-0-8213-6629-5