Comments on: African poverty is falling. (Seriously.) Maybe it’s the tourism? (Doubt it.) http://www.jinamoore.com/2010/03/02/poverty-and-tourism/ Reporter & Producer Thu, 10 May 2012 22:24:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jina Moore http://www.jinamoore.com/2010/03/02/poverty-and-tourism/#comment-659 Jina Moore Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:54:13 +0000 http://www.jinamoore.com/?p=1296#comment-659 Thanks, Chris! Thanks, Chris!

]]> By: Chris http://www.jinamoore.com/2010/03/02/poverty-and-tourism/#comment-658 Chris Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:52:27 +0000 http://www.jinamoore.com/?p=1296#comment-658 Hey - Love the blog. Definitely a large economic debate out there on this between the World Bank and a lot of people. This quick blurb on this does a sweet job of breaking it down (though an atrocious url): http://blogs.odi.org.uk/blogs/main/archive/2010/03/04/falling_african_poverty_national_bureau_economic_research.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ODI_Blog+%28Blogs+from+the+Overseas+Development+Institute%29 Hope it helps! Hey - Love the blog. Definitely a large economic debate out there on this between the World Bank and a lot of people. This quick blurb on this does a sweet job of breaking it down (though an atrocious url):

http://blogs.odi.org.uk/...seas+Development+Institute%29

Hope it helps!

]]> By: Quiet Griot http://www.jinamoore.com/2010/03/02/poverty-and-tourism/#comment-647 Quiet Griot Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:24:48 +0000 http://www.jinamoore.com/?p=1296#comment-647 I am planning to give this paper a careful reading soon, but just having looked it over, three reactions: 1) The finding that poverty in Africa has been falling over the past 10 years is not new, but their estimates of the drop are bigger that was has been previously thought, 2) the fact that the drop is so consistent across different groups of countries (resource rich vs. resource poor, conflict vs. no conflict, etc.) makes me very suspicious of the methodology, but 3) Sala-i-Martin is no slouch. I am planning to give this paper a careful reading soon, but just having looked it over, three reactions: 1) The finding that poverty in Africa has been falling over the past 10 years is not new, but their estimates of the drop are bigger that was has been previously thought, 2) the fact that the drop is so consistent across different groups of countries (resource rich vs. resource poor, conflict vs. no conflict, etc.) makes me very suspicious of the methodology, but 3) Sala-i-Martin is no slouch.

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