Growth and poverty in Africa
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 27/02/2013

Andy McKay, professor of development economics at University of Sussex, discusses the motivating factors behind UNU-WIDER's Growth and Poverty Project (GAPP) with Carl-Gustav Lindén, senior communications specialist at UNU-WIDER. In the GAPP project Africa's growth, poverty and inequality trends are re-examined. The growth rates in the continent have been much better over the last 15 years than previously, but this story hides many puzzles that researchers are trying to solve.

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