Regional and Geographic Features of pro-poor growth in Africa
Regional and Geographic Features of pro-poor growth in Africa

Author(s): Jaromír Harmáček, Barbora Frličková
Subject(s): Human Geography, Regional Geography, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: pro-poor growth; poverty; Africa; geography and growth;
Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on regional and geographic features of pro-poor growth in African countries. The concept of pro-poor growth interconnects and examines mutual relationships between income growth, income poverty and income inequality. Using the World Bank’s income data, we calculate and interpret indicators of pro-poor growth for individual African countries. Then we analyze the results in terms of African regionalization and we investigate possible associations between pro-poor growth categories and selected geographic factors such as location, population size or population density. We show that higher pro-poorness of growth is typical for countries of Northern and Western Africa. The results also indicate that some of the geographic factors are significantly associated with propoor growth across African countries.

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