Burkina Faso: Shipping Around the Malthusian Trap

Michael Grimm, Claude Wetta and Aude Nikiema

No wp-2014-124, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Burkina Faso has experienced quite significant aggregate growth over the past two decades, but that growth has not been transformed into poverty reduction. The key obstacles preventing large-scale escape from poverty are very high population growth combined with the absence of major technological change in agriculture and any significant structural transformation of the urban economy. Continuously rising food prices and droughts maintain child malnutrition and mortality at high levels, threatening the political and social stability of the country.

Keywords: Economic growth; Equality and inequality; Structural adjustment (Economic policy); Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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