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New international poverty reduction strategies / edited by Jean-Pierre Cling, Mireille Razafindrakoto and Francois Roubaud.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in development economics ; 35.
- Routledge studies in development economics ; 35
- Standardized Title:
- Nouvelles strategies internationales de lutte contre la pauvrete. English.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World Bank.
- Economic assistance--Case studies.
- Poverty--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 p.)
- Edition:
- English language ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a joint initiative at the end of 1999, stating that they intended to set the fight against poverty at the heart of their development policies. This book provides the expert, critical analysis of the poverty reduction strategies that is needed. Originally published in French and updated here for the first time in English, the book emphasises three main innovations brought about by focus on poverty reduction, participatory process implemented for policy-making and better coordination of official development assistance. The con
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 A critical review of the World Bank's stance on poverty reduction; 2 Poverty, inequality of conditions and inequality of opportunities: chances and risks of new strategies; 3 The lessons to be learnt from methods of regulating poverty in Europe; 4 Urban poverty and recession in sub-Saharan Africa; 5 Do they really think differently?; 6 A participatory process towards establishing new relationships between stakeholders; 7 Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: old wine in new bottles?; 8 Poverty reduction in Mali: will the PRSP make a difference?
- 9 Debt relief or aid reform?10 The HIPC Initiative and poverty reduction; 11 The existing systems for monitoring poverty; 12 The different approaches to measuring poverty in Europe; 13 Two original poverty monitoring tools; 14 Evaluating poverty reduction policies; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-389) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-39889-1
- 1-134-39890-5
- 0-429-24224-7
- 1-280-13798-3
- 9786610137985
- 0-203-98773-X
- OCLC:
- 76894494
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