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Towards Poverty Alleviation in Africa: Women's issues in health and education

By the 1990s an international consensus had emerged that poverty alleviation should be viewed as the overarching goal of both economic and political development. Initially, it was hoped that poverty could be alleviated though economic growth alone. Poverty alleviation was seen as a short-term hardship, which would disappear as nations developed and grew in economic terms. On the contrary, poverty is now recognized as a major threat to a very significant section of countries’ populations, with worrying follow-on consequences for the nations’ security and the economic well-being of those people with surplus income and good access to services. It is also increasingly believed that national economic growth per se is not a sufficient condition for poverty reduction. For one thing, the causes of poverty are multidimensional. Poverty can be viewed as including not only shortage of disposable income but also deprivation in other economic and social aspects, for instance, in education, in life expectancy and in a whole spectrum of factors which are part of the standard and quality of life experienced.