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Autore: | White Howard <1960-> |
Titolo: | African poverty at the millennium : causes, complexities, and challenges / / Howard White and Tony Killick in collaboration with Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa and Marie-Angelique Savane |
Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2001 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | xxvi, 139 pages : illustrations ; ; 28 cm |
Disciplina: | 339.4/6/096 |
Soggetto topico: | Poverty - Africa |
Soggetto geografico: | Africa Economic conditions |
Altri autori: | KillickTony |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-139). |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Part I Africa's Poverty Problem -- 1. A First View -- The Growth of African Poverty -- The Danger of Overgeneralizing -- Conclusion -- 2. Different Poverty Concepts Can Point in Different Directions -- Different Poverty Concepts -- Why Conceptualizations Matter -- 3. African Poverty Has Many Dimensions -- Categories and Characteristics -- Profiles of African Poverty -- The Nature of African Poverty Is Changing -- The Sobering Implications of Complexity -- Part II The Causes of Poverty -- 4. Overview of the Proximate and Primary Causes of Poverty -- The Danger and Value of Generalization -- The Interaction of Causes and Effects -- Some Neglected Causes -- Proximate versus Primary Causes -- Some Policy Implications -- 5. Economic Stagnation Has Caused Much Poverty -- Growth and Distribution: The Overall Picture -- Africa's Growth Has Often Been Slow but May Be Improving -- The Poor May Not be Able to Benefit from Growth -- Growth Affects Poverty Groups Differently -- Conclusion -- 6. Why Has Growth Been So Poor? -- Causes of Low Growth: the Usual Suspects -- Are Bad Policies to Blame? -- Agricultural Backwardness Is Particularly Serious, but the Causes Go Deep -- Economic Reform Programs and Poverty Reduction -- Global Factors Have Not Been a Major Reason for Slow Growth -- Conclusion -- 7. Both Governments and Markets Have Failed the Poor -- Political Systems Have Contributed to Economic Stagnation -- Political Systems Have Also Tended to Keep Poverty off the Agenda -- Some Markets Fail the Poor -- What Does the Future Hold? -- 8. The Poor Have Inadequate Capital -- A Weak Asset Base Undermines Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural Areas. |
Africa Lacks Physical Capital of All Kinds, Stocks of Many Are Being Denuded, and the Access of the Poor Is Increasingly Restricted -- Accumulation of Human and Social Capital Is Slow and Frequently Biased against Rural Areas -- Conclusion -- 9. Sustaining Improvements in Social Indicators Requires Growing Income and Better State Service Provision -- The Direct and Indirect Benefits of Improving Social Outcomes -- Africa Lags Behind on Social Indicators-and the Gap Is Widening -- The Poor Are More Sick and Less Educated Than the Nonpoor-and Resources Remain Skewed -- Further Reforms Can Close the International and National Gaps -- Conclusion: The Need for Balanced Development -- 10. Household and Population Dynamics: Good and Bad News for Poverty Reduction -- Household Structure and Poverty -- The Demographic Transition Is Under Way -- Changing Household Structures and Demographics Provide a Case for State Intervention -- 11. Women's Unequal Position Pervades the Poverty Problem -- Social Trends in Gender and Poverty -- Economic Trends in Gender and Poverty -- The Importance of Intrahousehold Relations -- Poverty Reinforces the Subordination of Women -- The Challenges of Poverty-Sensitive Policy and Planning -- Part III Poverty Reduction Policies -- 12. Outlines of an Antipoverty Strategy -- Promoting Social and Political Change for Poverty Reduction -- The Primacy of Pro-Poor Growth -- The Need for an Integrated Approach -- The Role of Donors -- Conclusion -- 13. National Policies for Reducing Poverty -- The Policy Challenge -- Two Initial Truisms -- Other Principles of a Poverty-Reduction Strategy -- A Checklist of Policy Possibilities for a Poverty-Reduction Strategy -- The Need to Set Targets -- Conclusion -- 14. Find out More and Monitor Progress -- 15. Donor Countries Need to Do More, Too -- The Gap between Donor Aspirations and Practices. | |
Responding to Conflict and Postconflict Situations -- The Way Ahead -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Selected Statistical Data -- References and Bibliography. | |
Titolo autorizzato: | African poverty at the millennium |
ISBN: | 1-280-08403-0 |
9786610084036 | |
0-585-41511-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808407803321 |
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