The objective of this background paper which was submitted to the Committee on Women and Development (CWD) is to reflect ECA's stance and comparative advantage on mainstreaming gender as a development goal, into the Poverty ...

Post-independence development planning and policy making as typified by five-year Fixed Development Plans and succeeded by Flexible three-year Rolling Plans were largely predicated on trickle-down hypothesis. They were ...

This manual is intended to give a basic introduction to the technique of constructing concentration curves and computing concentration indices in health equity analysis. The users of this manual are expected to benefits ...

The Follow-up Strategy also takes into account what the continent has achieved in the last decade, analyses the gaps and limitations that were identified in the Decade Review process and synthesizes the strategic interventions ...

This paper focuses on policy analysis and advocacy for gender mainstreaming in national poverty reduction strategy (2001 - 2003). Africa's poverty challenge is characterized by the poor record of economic growth, high ...

Poverty reduction has received increased focus in development debate in the past two decades. Progress on poverty reduction has become a major measure of success of development policy. In the 1970s and 1980s, the pre-occupation ...

The African Center for Gender and Development (ACDG) of the United Nation Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA) in collaboration with Laval University aim to develop a macroeconomic framework that integrates both market ...

This paper proposes a model that attempts to address poverty dynamics and provides an additional dimension to poverty for countries in the Southern African region. Most importantly, this study could facilitate the design ...

The literature on poverty evolved rapidly over the last two decades. Particularly, the body of work in the area of the measurement Introduction of poverty grew substantially following Sen's (1976) seminal paper. We can ...

The documents that emerged from the decade review of implementing the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), such as the country reports, reports of the Sub-regional Decade Review meetings, the Outcome and Way Forward of the ...