Successful poverty reduction requires sustained wealth creation with a mix of motivations that are self-and other-regarding. Even if poverty is viewed simply as an issue of material wealth, it will be naïve to think that wealth’s contribution to reducing poverty is restricted to creating more of it. Obviously, it is imperative to create more wealth and fast, because wealth production in most African countries grows at the lower rate than their populations. But it is not the question of just what is done, but how it is done, and under what conditions .
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