The universal social safety-net and the attack on world poverty: pressing need, manageable cost, practical possibilities, favourable spillovers
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1. Verfasser: Clunies Ross, Anthony 1932- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2014
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in development economics
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I Case for a safety-net; 1 Paradox: need and opportunity; 2 Three sages and two new messages; 3 The basic case; 4 Size of the extreme-poverty gap; Part II Ways and means; 5 Targeting the poor and fixing rates; 6 Difficulties and obstacles; 7 Financing social safety-nets; 8 Conditional cash transfers (CCTs); 9 Employment guarantees; 10 Paying for health care; 11 The 'other' Millennium Development Goals: competition or synergy?
12 Politics of safety-nets: turning aspiration into realityPart III Another window; 13 The NGOs and microcredit in Bangladesh; Part IV Summary; 14 Imperative and hope; Postscript; Bibliography; Index
The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap. This must be done country by country, on the initiative of each country's government: with the maximum involvement of its own civil society, and with the rich world also making a contribution. To add momentum, the international community needs to adopt targets far more specific than the fifty percent extreme 'poverty reduction' of the first Millennium Development Goal
ISBN:1134659075
9781134659074

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