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Poverty can prevent households from making high return investments in the human capital of their children. The poor may not be able to spare their children - particularly their girls - from household work in order to go to school. A study of gender differences in performance in the primary-leaving examination in the Cote d’Ivoire found that the difference arose due to the under-performance of girls from poor households. This may reflect the demands on the time of girls in poor households. In their last two years of primary school, girls from the poorest 25% of households reported spending 16 hours a week in school and 15 hours on housework; in the most affluent 25% of households, the figures were 27 hours and 7 hours respectively (Appleton, 1995a). Poor households may also not be able to afford the monetary costs of health care and education. These costs may help explain why the benefits of postprimary schooling accrue mainly to the non-poor. A beneficiary assessment of social sector spending in Tanzania found the poorest and most affluent quintiles received 19% and 18% respectively of expenditure on primary schooling; but for secondary schooling, the poorest received only 8% and the most affluent received 36%. All university expenditure was estimated to accrue to the richest 20% of the population (World Bank, 1995). However, non-monetary factors are also important: lack of parental education is often found to be more critical than a lack of income per se in determining child health, performance at school and eligibility for post-primary education.

Household surveys provide useful evidence on the distribution of investments in human capital. For example, survey data for Cote d’Ivoire in 1985 showed net primary school enrolment rates for boys to be 32% amongst the poorest 10% of the population but 66% amongst the non-poor (defined as the top 70% of the population. For girls, the corresponding figures were 22% and 54%. Interestingly, girls from poor households appear to have suffered more from the country’s economic decline in the 1980s: by 1988, net primary school enrolments for girls in very poor households had declined to 17% whilst amongst the non-poor they had risen to 57%. Male primary school enrolments rose in non-poor households and remained constant in very poor ones. Poverty was also strongly correlated with use of curative and preventive health care, although here gender differences were less marked. In 1985, 31%

of very poor males consulted a doctor or nurse when sick; amongst the non-poor the figure was 51%

(Grootaert, 1994). By 1988, the inequalities had widened, with the corresponding proportions being 19% and 53%.

Poverty profiles of African countries invariably find rates of poverty decline sharply with the education of the household head. For example, in Nigeria in 1992, 39.5% of people in households with uneducated heads were poor; for those living in households with secondary school educated heads, the poverty rate was only 23% (World Bank, 1996). Education reduces poverty partly by giving access to high return formal sector employment and to higher wages within such employment. However, there is evidence that education and nutrition also raise productivity in farm and non-farm self-employment, activities in which the poor are concentrated.

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The African Development Bank is the premier financial development institution of Africa, dedicated to combating poverty and improving the lives of people of the continent and engaged in the task of mobilizing resources towards the economic and social progress of its Regional Member Countries.The Bank’s s mission is to promote economic and social development through loans, equity investments, and technical assistance. The ADB is a multilateral development bank whose shareholders include 53 African countries and 24 non-African countries from the Americas, Asia, and Europe. It was established in 1964, with its headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and officially began operations in 1967.
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