Economic Report on Africa 1999 : The Challenge of Poverty Reduction and Sustainability

Abstract

The Economic Report on Africa (ERA) reviews the performance of the region's economy during the past year and considers the prospects for the short and medium term. With a special focus on poverty reduction, the publication gives an evaluation from the perspective of reducing poverty by half over the next decade and a half. The ERA presents a set of indices on the basis of which both short- and long-term sustainability can be evaluated. The sustainability analysis evaluates social, economic and other performance, outcomes and policy efforts of African countries in terms of progress towards a well-defined long-term goal of halving poverty by the year 2015.