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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796568103321

Titolo

Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Y. Bangura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015

ISBN

1-349-69435-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 316 p.)

Collana

Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction, , 2662-6233

Classificazione

BUS039000BUS068000BUS069000

Disciplina

339.4/6091724

Soggetti

Development economics

Macroeconomics

Political economy

Economic growth

Poverty

Development Economics

Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics

International Political Economy

Economic Growth

Development Aid

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction; Yusuf Bangura -- PART I: DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES -- 2. Employment, Economic Development and Poverty Reduction; James Heintz -- 3. Taxation, Developmental State Capacity and Poverty Reduction; Jonathan Di John -- 4. The Effectiveness of IMF/World Bank-Funded Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers; Ricardo Gottschalk -- 5. Poverty Reduction and the Politics of Bilateral Donor Relations; Tom Lavers -- 6. Politics of Growth and Redistribution in a Democratic Context; Yusuf Bangura -- 7. Agrarian Social Pacts and Poverty Reduction; Adam Sheingate -- PART II: CASE STUDIES -- 8. Economic Development and Poverty Reduction in Korea: Governing Multifunctional Institutions; Huck-ju Kwon and Ilcheong Yi -- 9. Growing Wealth, Poverty Avoidance and Management in



Singapore; Chua Beng Huat -- 10. Development Strategies and Poverty Reduction in China; Jean C. Oi -- 11. The Unsocial Leviathan: Interests, Institutions and Social Policy in Brazil; Marcus Andre; Melo -- 12. Ireland's Boom-Bust Cycles: The Elusive Search for a Balanced Development; Peadar Kirby.

Sommario/riassunto

This book looks at developmental pathways to poverty reduction that emphasize employment-centred structural change, social policies that both protect citizens and contribute to economic development, and types of politics that support economic transformation and participation of the poor in growth processes.