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Developmental pathways to poverty reduction / edited by Yusuf Bangura
Bib ID 6895114
Format BookBook [text, volume]
Description Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 
xx, 316 pages ; 23 cm. 
ISBN 1137482532
9781137482532
Series

Developmental pathways to poverty reduction series.

Summary

"In 2000, governments made a commitment through the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty and hunger by half by 2015. However, despite the reorientation of much of aid policy towards the fight against poverty, there are concerns that many countries will be unable to make meaningful dents in their levels of poverty, let alone meet the lofty goals. At the centre of these concerns is whether countries are following the right development path, and whether lessons have been learned from the strategies of newly industrialized countries that drastically reduced poverty relatively quickly and without much dependence on international development assistance. This book is about pathways to poverty reduction that emphasize employment-centred structural change, social policies that both protect citizens and contribute to economic development, and types of politics that support growth and redistribution. It draws on the experiences of countries that transformed their economies and reduced poverty in very short periods"--

Full contents
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction; Yusuf Bangura
  • PART I: DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
  • 2. Employment, Economic Development and Poverty Reduction; James Heintz
  • 3. Taxation, Developmental State Capacity and Poverty Reduction; Jonathan Di John
  • 4. The Effectiveness of IMF/World Bank-Funded Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers; Ricardo Gottschalk
  • 5. Poverty Reduction and the Politics of Bilateral Donor Relations; Tom Lavers
  • 6. Politics of Growth and Redistribution in a Democratic Context; Yusuf Bangura
  • 7. Agrarian Social Pacts and Poverty Reduction; Adam Sheingate
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects Economic development -- Developing countries.  |  Equality -- Government policy -- Developing countries.  |  Poverty -- Government policy -- Developing countries.  |  Developing countries.
Other authors/contributors Bangura, Yusuf, 1950- editor

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