Determinants of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper examines the determinants of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africausing a set of cross-country data drawn from 48 countries. It adopts amultiple regression analysis. The results obtained indicates that factors likeincrease in the rate of population, inflation and external debt servicing, lackof safe water, low economic activities, gender discrimination, ethnic andreligious conflicts and HIV/AIDS have influenced the increase in the ratepoverty in the sub-region. Given these results, measures such as debtforgiveness, use of family planning devices, stable macro-economic variableslike inflation and exchange rate volatility and good governance aresuggested as possible solutions to poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa.