Poverty reduction in Africa

Journal article

Poverty in Africa has been rising for the last quarter-century while it has been falling in the rest of the developing world. Africa's distinctive problem is that its economies have not been growing. The paper attempts to synthesize a range of recent research to account for this failure of the growth process. It argues that the reasons lie not in African peculiarities but rather in geographic features which globally cause problems but which are disproportionately pronounced in Africa. These features interact to create three distinct challenges that are likely to require international interventions beyond the conventional reliance upon aid.

Authors: Collier, P

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
• Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Volume: 104
• Issue: 43
• Pages: 16763-16768
• Publication date: 2007-10-01
• ISSN: 0027-8424
• Language: English
• Keywords: human geography; physical geography
• Subjects: Africa; Poverty; Economics; Social Sciences; Development economics