Linking Macroeconomic and Sectoral Policies and Investments with the Alleviationof Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

摘要

Government polcies have a strong effect on the prospects of the poor to improvetheir lot. This report examines ways in which anti-poverty policies and investments in sub-Saharan Africa can best be designed. An initial section defines poverty at the individual and societal levels, and constructs a poverty profile. A framework is then described for examining, at the micro (household),