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Report on the World Social Situation 2010 : Rethinking Poverty _ / United Nations
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- United Nations.
- Series:
- Report on the World Social Situation Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--Measurement.
- Poverty.
- Poverty--Government policy.
- Poverty--History.
- Social Problems.
- Sociology.
- Social Sciences.
- Medical Subjects:
- Social Problems.
- Sociology.
- Poverty.
- Social Sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] United Nations Dept of Economic and Social Affairs 2009
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This report seeks to contribute to rethinking poverty eradication, asserting "the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalist thinking, policies and practices of recent decades towards more sustainable development- and equity-oriented policies appropriate to national conditions and circumstances. Such national development strategies, as called for by the 2005 World Summit, should seek to achieve the development goals. Responsible development and counter-cyclical macroeconomic policies to foster productive investments and generate decent employment must be at the core of this effort ... Over-reliance on market forces and economic liberalization have led to neglect of nationally designed and developmentally-oriented strategies, to the detriment of the world's poor. The most important lesson, accordingly, is that governments need to play a developmental role, integrating economic and social policies that support inclusive output and employment growth, while attacking inequality and promoting justice."--Publisher's description
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- Explanatory notes
- 1. Rethinking poverty: which way now?
- 2. Poverty: the official numbers
- 3. The poverty of poverty measurement
- 4. Deprivation, vulnerability and exclusion
- 5. Macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction
- 6. Economic liberalization and poverty reduction
- 7. Labour-market and social policies and poverty reduction
- 8. Poverty reduction programmes
- 9. Rethinking poverty reduction interventions
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9789210545693
- 9210545699
- OCLC:
- 1409701513
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