Development Planning and Poverty Reduction

✍ Scribed by David Potts, Patrick Ryan, Anna Toner (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 296
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Development Planning and Poverty Reduction....Pages 3-9
Poverty: What Have We Learnt? Experiences and Lessons from Asia....Pages 10-30
Direct Budget Support and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: A Fundamental Shift or a Transitory Fashion?....Pages 31-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
The Power in Participatory Practice....Pages 45-67
Poverty, Participation and Dependency in Mali: A Tale of Two Projects....Pages 68-85
Opening Pandora’s Box: Regional Action on a Concept of Sustainable Growth with Equity....Pages 86-93
Large Dams, Irrigation and Social Equity in Swaziland....Pages 94-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Making Partnerships Work on the Ground: Experience in Uganda....Pages 107-123
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: A Role for Civil Society?....Pages 124-147
Development Expenditure Management in Uganda....Pages 148-163
Projects, Public Investment Programmes and Medium-Term Expenditure Frameworks: Evidence from Ghana....Pages 164-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Poverty Targeting, Distributional Effects and Project Analysis....Pages 179-199
Distribution Issues in Water Projects: An Application of Sen’s Entitlements Approach....Pages 200-217
Applying Distributional Analysis: The Mufima Case Study Revisited....Pages 218-230
Poverty Objectives and Economic Analysis of Health Projects....Pages 231-245
Analysis of Poverty and Income Distribution Using the Effects Method....Pages 246-257
Back Matter....Pages 258-287

✦ Subjects

Development Economics; Development Studies; Poverty, Aid and Development

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