Not all growth is equal in improving the lot of the poorest fraction of society, and research published by the Banque de France seeks to highlight the areas policy-makers should concentrate on to tackle poverty.

The working paper, The elasticity of poverty with respect to sectoral growth in Africa, takes a novel approach in dividing each economy into six sectors, and estimating how concentrating growth in different sectors feeds into poverty reduction over time. Nicoletta Berardi of the Banque