scholarly journals Combining ambitious climate policies with efforts to eradicate poverty

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjoern Soergel ◽  
Elmar Kriegler ◽  
Benjamin Leon Bodirsky ◽  
Nico Bauer ◽  
Marian Leimbach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Climate Finance ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Sub Saharan

AbstractClimate change threatens to undermine efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. However, climate policies could impose a financial burden on the global poor through increased energy and food prices. Here, we project poverty rates until 2050 and assess how they are influenced by mitigation policies consistent with the 1.5 °C target. A continuation of historical trends will leave 350 million people globally in extreme poverty by 2030. Without progressive redistribution, climate policies would push an additional 50 million people into poverty. However, redistributing the national carbon pricing revenues domestically as an equal-per-capita climate dividend compensates this policy side effect, even leading to a small net reduction of the global poverty headcount (−6 million). An additional international climate finance scheme enables a substantial poverty reduction globally and also in Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining national redistribution with international climate finance thus provides an important entry point to climate policy in developing countries.

scholarly journals Poverty Alleviation And Microcredit In Sub-Saharan Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wali I. Mondal
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Recent Effort ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
The World ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Sub Saharan

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to be the most poverty- stricken region of the world. Concerns about poverty in SSA and poverty reduction efforts for this region have been documented extensively. The most recent effort aimed at global poverty reduction is known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The first of the eight goals of the MDG calls for eradication of extreme poverty and hunger with a target to halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day. An evaluation of this goal in 2005 reveals that SSA countries have failed to reduce the incidence of extreme poverty while other regions of the world have achieved success in this effort. This paper analyzes the incidence of extreme poverty in SSA in relation to the socio-economic infrastructure of the region, its land tenure system, and particularly the growth of microcredit and microentrepreneurship. Using primary data, the paper analyzes the growth of microcredit which operates through 297 microfinance institutes in 34 countries of the region. Extensive use of microfinancing has shown to reduce extreme poverty among the users of microcredit. Use of microcredit at the grassroots level creates a class of microentrepreneur with characteristics similar to the model of entrepreneurship developed by Schumpeter. The study concludes that there is a prospect for the growth of microentrepreneurship in at least 13 countries of SSA allowing for new employment opportunities, savings among borrowers, and reduction of extreme poverty.

Africa's poverty reduction goals are ambitious

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Severe Drought ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
Sub Saharan

Subject Outlook for poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Significance On September 25, the UN General Assembly adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Of these, the first is to end extreme poverty in all forms everywhere by 2030. However, beyond the SDG's overambitious targets and vague formulation, forecasts on core GDP, demographic and income trends for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) indicate that progress on curbing poverty could stall. Impacts Higher food prices in Southern Africa, caused by the severe drought -- linked to the El Nino weather event -- will strain household budgets. State spending curbs, eg on fuel subsidies or public sector hiring, could push some 'middle class' households back below the poverty line. Population growth will prove especially challenging for SSA's 'megacities', which will struggle to provide sufficient infrastructure. The success of donors' cash 'safety net' welfare initiatives will be intermittent due to data problems which undermine effective targeting.

The Pentecostal Gospel of Prosperity in African Contexts of Poverty: An Appraisal

Exchange ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lovemore Togarasei
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Sub Saharan

AbstractThis paper discusses the paradox presented by two realities: the situation of extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and the rapid growth of charismatic Pentecostal Christianity with its emphasis on prosperity. Earlier studies on Pentecostalism have identified its success among the poor as a result of its promise of prosperity. Indeed others have viewed this doctrine as an impetus for delusion. This paper critically reviews the Pentecostal gospel of prosperity in the context of the poverty experienced in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, it discusses the possible contribution of this doctrine to sustainable development. Over and above a theorization of how this gospel can contribute to sustainable development for poverty reduction, the paper also discusses specific cases of how Pentecostal Christianity is contributing to poverty reduction in Zimbabwe and Botswana, for example.

scholarly journals COVID‐19 and food prices in sub‐Saharan Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Kwaku Agyei ◽  
Zangina Isshaq ◽  
Siaw Frimpong ◽  
Anokye Mohammed Adam ◽  
Ahmed Bossman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Prices ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan

The Urban Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

10.1068/c3p ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Kessides
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
National Development ◽  
Favourable Outcome ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Urban Transition ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Sub Saharan

In this paper I ask how the ongoing processes of urban and local government development in Sub-Saharan Africa can and should benefit the countries, and what conditions must be met to achieve this favourable outcome. The region faces close to a doubling of the urban population in fifteen years. This urban transition poses an opportunity as well as a management challenge. Urban areas represent underutilised resources that concentrate much of the countries' physical, financial, and intellectual capital. Therefore it is critical to understand how they can better serve the national growth and poverty reduction agendas. The paper challenges several common ‘myths’ that cloud discourse about urban development in Africa. I also take a hard look at what the urban transition can offer national development, and what support cities and local governments require to achieve these results. I argue that, rather than devoting more attention to debating the urban contribution to development in Africa, real energy needs to be spent unblocking it.

scholarly journals Towards the attainment of sustainable development goal 7: what determines clean energy accessibility in sub-Saharan Africa?

Green Finance ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-286
Author(s):  
Paul Adjei Kwakwa ◽  
◽  
Frank Adusah-Poku ◽  
Kwame Adjei-Mantey ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Sub Saharan

<abstract> <p>Access to clean energy is necessary for environmental cleanliness and poverty reduction. That notwithstanding, many in developing countries especially those in sub-Saharan Africa region lack clean energy for their routine domestic activities. This study sought to unravel the factors that influence clean energy accessibility in sub-Saharan Africa region. Clean energy accessibility, specifically access to electricity, and access to clean cooking fuels and technologies, were modeled as a function of income, foreign direct investment, inflation, employment and political regime for a panel of 31 sub-Saharan countries for the period 2000–2015. Regression analysis from fixed effect, random effect and Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares show that access to clean energy is influenced positively by income, foreign direct investment, political regime and employment while inflation has some negative effect on its accessibility. The policy implications from the findings among other things include that expansion in GDP per capita in the sub-region shall be helpful in increasing accessibility to clean energy. Moreover, strengthening the democratic institutions of countries in the region shall enhance the citizens' accessibility to clean energy. Ensuring sustainable jobs for the citizens is necessary for access clean energy.</p> </abstract>

scholarly journals Higher Education and Economic Growth in Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Bloom ◽  
David Canning ◽  
Kevin Chan ◽  
Dara Lee Luca
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
International Development ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Développement Économique ◽  
Education And Economic Growth

Enrollment rates for higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa are by far the lowest in the world at 6%. Yet because of conventional beliefs that tertiary education is less important for poverty reduction, the international development community has encouraged African governments’ relative neglect of higher education. This article challenges beliefs that tertiary education has little role in promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty. First, we review recent evidence that higher education can produce significant public and private benefits. Next, we analyze the relationship between tertiary education and economic growth. We find evidence that tertiary education improves technological catch-up and, in doing so, may help to maximize Africa’s potential to achieve more rapid economic growth given current constraints. Investing in tertiary education in Africa may accelerate technological diffusion, which would in turn decrease knowledge gaps and help reduce poverty in the region. We also review new developments and trends in the higher education scene in Africa. Le taux d’inscription dans l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique sub-saharienne est de loin le plus faible du monde, atteignant seulement 6%. Pourtant, parce que l’enseignement supérieur est perçu comme moins important que les enseignements primaire et secondaire pour lutter contre la pauvreté, la communauté internationale a encouragé les gouvernements africains à moins y prêter attention. Cet article conteste l’idée que l’enseignement supérieur joue un rôle peu important dans le développement économique et la lutte contre la pauvreté. Tout d’abord, nous nous intéressons à de récents résultats qui montrent que l’enseignement supérieur crée des bénéfices publics et privés. Ensuite, nous analysons la relation entre l’enseignement supérieur et la croissance économique. Nous montrons que l’enseignement supérieur permet de rattraper le retard technologique et, ce faisant, pourrait aider l’Afrique à maximiser sa capacité à accélérer sa croissance économique dans les conditions actuelles. Investir dans l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique pourrait permettre une diffusion plus rapide des avancées technologiques, qui pourrait à son tour réduire la disparité de savoir et participer à la réduction de la pauvreté dans la région. Nous passons aussi en revue les nouveautés et tendances dans l’enseignement supérieur africain.

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