This report focuses on the roots of structural inequality that are at the heart of
Africa’s slow progress in reducing extreme poverty. Rather than resulting from
differences in talent or effort, structural inequalities in living standards are those
resulting from either inherited or unalterable characteristics—such as where
people are born; their ethnicity, religion, or gender; and their parents’
education—or market and institutional distortions that...
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Leveling the Playing Field - Addressing Structural Inequalities to Accelerate Poverty Reduction in Africa : Executive Summary
Citation
World Bank.
Leveling the Playing Field - Addressing Structural Inequalities to Accelerate Poverty Reduction in Africa : Executive Summary (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099120224111041493