There is Africanization of poverty. They are the poorest of the poor.
Gender inequality has tremendous implications for economic growth.
Women provide enormous resources that could be utilized for poverty reduction. Women are far more active in farming than men, accounting for more than three-fourths of all food production on the continent, noted Mark Blackden, gender policy coordinator for the World Bank. Yet the policies of most governments in Africa favor men when it comes to providing credit and access to basic farming supplies such as fertilizer, he said. In Cameroon, women prefer to do things that are less remunerative but over which they have more control. Women work substantially more hours than men between domestic chores and farming, he said.