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The contributors to this collection examine the progress and impact of the 'new poverty strategies' which have governed the policies of development agencies over the past decade. While in some areas progress has been impressive, in others it has been hampered by persisting inequalities, civil conflict, institutional gaps and turbulence in the international financial system. In light of this, The New Poverty Strategies proposes a range of new policies and donor initiatives designed to achieve greater success in poverty reduction in the new century.
List of contents
List of Tables Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION Introduction; P.Mosley PART II: DONOR PERSPECTIVES The Poverty Reduction Strategies of the Development Cooperation Agencies in the 1990s: Their Record and What They Need to Do; A.Cox & J. Healey Poverty Reduction in Swedish Development Cooperation: Policies and Practice; D.Ehrenpries Poverty and Structural Adjustment: Some Remarks on Trade-offs Between Equity and Growth; R.van der Hoeven PART III: POVERTY, CRISES AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT Poverty Versus The Poor; G.Pyatt The Impact of Economic Crisis on Poverty and Income Distribution: An Indonesian Case Study, 1997-99; A.Booth The Incipient African Green Revolution and Pro-Poor Growth; P.Mosley Poverty in Rural Ethiopia 1989-95: Evidence from Household Panel Data; S.Dercon & P.Krishnan PART IV: SOCIAL PROTECTION, GOVERNANCE AND POVERTY TARGETRY Rights, Institutions and Poverty; A.Joshi & M.Moore Gender in the World Bank's Poverty Assessments: Six Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa; A.Whitehead & M.Lockwood Attaining the International Development Targets: Will Growth be Enough?; L.Hanmer & F.Naschold Index
About the author
AIDAN COX Research Officer, Overseas Development Institute, London
STEFAN DERCON Research Officer, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
DAG EHRENPREIS OECD Development Assistance Committee, Paris
LUCIA HANMER Research Officer, Overseas Development Institute, London
JOHN HEALEY Research Officer, Overseas Development Institute, London
ANURADHA JOSHI Assistant Professor of Political Science, MIT
PRAMILA KRSHNAN Research Officer, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
MATTHEW LOCKWOOD Social Development Adviser, Department for International Development, London
MICK MOORE Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
FELIX NASCHOLD Research Officer, Overseas Development Institute, London
GRAHAM PYATT Retired, formerly Professor of Economics, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
ROLPH VAN DER HOEVEN Chief Economic Adviser, International Labour Organisation, Geneva
ANN WHITEHEAD Reader in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
Summary
The contributors to this collection examine the progress and impact of the 'new poverty strategies' which have governed the policies of development agencies over the past decade. While in some areas progress has been impressive, in others it has been hampered by persisting inequalities, civil conflict, institutional gaps and turbulence in the international financial system. In light of this, The New Poverty Strategies proposes a range of new policies and donor initiatives designed to achieve greater success in poverty reduction in the new century.
