UNU WIDER : Reconciling Africa’s growth, poverty and inequality trends: growth and poverty project (GAPP)

Reconciling Africa’s growth, poverty and inequality trends – growth and poverty project (GAPP)

Despite decades of research and advances in data and methods, measuring poverty and reconciling this with patterns of economic growth remains a complex and contentious issue. UNU-WIDER’s Growth and Poverty Project (GAPP) re-examines Africa’s growth, poverty and inequality trends. The project has three goals.

First, develop new tools to measure monetary poverty in consistent and comparable ways, and make these tools accessible to scholars in Africa and other developing regions.

Secondly, undertake detailed case studies in more than a dozen African countries to measure poverty trends, and 'triangulate' these with other development indicators, such as on non-monetary poverty, demographic changes, macroeconomic trends and external shocks.

Thirdly, develop a macro-micro analytical framework to conduct detailed research in countries where poverty and economic growth trends appear to be inconsistent.

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Finn Tarp

Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow

Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...

Journal Article

A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan Africa

The rights-based approach to development targets progress towards the realization of 30 articles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In current practice, progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index...

Parallel session

Growth and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

This session is centred around the high profile UNU-WIDER volume on Growth and Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa published in 2016. The research project resulting in the book sought to provide a carefully researched view about the extent to which recent...

Policy Brief

Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries

Presentation

Finn Tarp at the IPP International Conference 2017

The IPP International Conference 2017, ‘Development and Poverty: China and the World’, will feature speakers and participants from the West, East Asia, South Asia, Latin America, and mainland China to discuss challenges faced by countries in their...

Sat, 19 August 2017 – Sun, 20 August 2017

Shangri-La Hotel, Guangzhou, China

Past event

Working Paper

On the poverty–growth elasticity

Poverty–growth elasticities are frequently calculated to provide insight into the inclusiveness of the growth process. Mathematically, the formula employed to calculate the growth elasticity of poverty leads to lower values for higher initial poverty...

Working Paper

A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan Africa

The rights-based approach to development targets progress towards the realization of 30 articles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index. While elegant and...