Ray Marshall Center Associate Director, Dr. Heath Prince, presented a paper at the African Evaluation Association’s bi-annual conference in Yaounde, Cameroon, held March 3rd-7th. Dr. Prince’s paper, Macro-level Drivers of Multidimensional Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Measuring Change in the Human Poverty Index, examines the role that pro-poor policy has had on non-income-based metrics of deprivation. The conference was sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, USAID, UNICEF, UN Women, and several other bi-lateral aid agencies and NGOs active in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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