What Works for the Poorest?: Poverty reduction programmes for the world's extreme poor - Tapa blanda

 
9781853396908: What Works for the Poorest?: Poverty reduction programmes for the world's extreme poor
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ISBN 10: 1853396907 ISBN 13: 9781853396908
Editorial: Practical Action Publishing, 2010

Sinopsis

Poverty reduction has become the central goal of development policies over the last decade but there is a growing realization that the poorest people rarely benefit from poverty reduction programmes. Microfinance programmes can help poor people improve their lives but generally such programmes do not reach the extremely poor and the chronic poor: casual labourers in remote rural areas, ethnic and indigenous minorities, older people, widows, migrants, bonded labourers and others.To counter this, governments, NGOs and donors have started to mount programmes explicitly targeting the poorest. This book is the first attempt to examine such initiatives and identify 'what works for the poorest'. It asks the questions: what are the characteristics of extreme poverty? how can we target the very poor? how can we ensure that women are not excluded? Through a set of carefully selected and well-integrated papers this book analyses innovative ultra-poor programmes from around the world and explores the lessons that emerge from this new and important body of knowledge.What Works for the Poorest? should be read by staff of donor agencies and NGOs, students of development studies and interested readers who are concerned about chronic poverty.


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David Lawson is a Research Fellow, Global Poverty Research Group and Brooks World Poverty Institute; he is an author of journal articles on poverty, health and gender. He is also the Convenor of postgraduate programmes on Development Economics at the University of Manchester. He has advised the World Bank, DfID and many governments in relation to poverty and poverty dynamics.

Professor Hulme is Founder-Director of the Global Poverty Research Group and Brooks World Poverty Institute; author of numerous well-received books on poverty, rural development and development studies; Director of post graduate programmes on Development Studies at the University of Manchester; and adviser to the UN, World Bank, DfID and many governments and leading NGOs.

Imran Matin has worked for the World Bank and specializes in designing and managing ultra-poor programmes in Bangladesh, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.Karen Moore is Policy Analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report, UNESCO

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Editorial
Practical Action Publishing
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1853396907
ISBN 13 
9781853396908
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
302
Editor
Lawson David, Hulme David, Matin Imran
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