Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107980 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/124
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
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. Dealing with Malthusian forces is the main challenge for Burkina Faso in the decade to come.
Subjects: 
Burkina Faso
food crisis
inequality
poverty
Malthusian Trap
structural change
JEL: 
I32
O5
O33
Q11
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-845-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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