Poverty reduction strategies : a comparative study applied to empirical research / / Philipp Albert Theodor Kircher

• Autore: Kircher Philipp Albert Theodor
• Pubblicazione: Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2018; Frankfurt am Main, Germany : , : Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, , 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290)
• Disciplina: 339.46
• Soggetto topico: Poverty; Poor
• Soggetto non controllato: applied; armut; bekämpfung; bericht; comparative; empirical; Kircher; Poverty; Reduction; research; Strategies; study
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF ANNEXES -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Aim of the Analysis -- 1.2. Examination Procedure -- 1.3. Strategies Reviewed in the Analysis -- 1.4. The Role of Poverty Reduction: Poverty Reduction vs. Other Developmental Goals -- 2. Poverty Reduction as Focal Point of Development Cooperation: The International Consensus -- 2.1. The Evolution Towards the Current Consensus -- 2.1.1. Overview -- 2.1.2. Growth -- 2.1.3. Redistribution with Growth -- 2.1.4. Basic Needs Approach -- 2.1.5. Free Market Forces -- 2.2. Today's Understanding of Poverty Reduction -- 2.3. Poverty Definitions beyond Monetary Income -- 2.3.1. Conceptual Dimensions of Poverty Definitions -- 2.3.2. The Current Poverty Definition -- 2.3.3. International Development Targets -- 2.4. The Domestic Framework for Poverty Reduction -- 2.4.1. Economic Framework -- 2.4.1.1. Growth and Equality -- 2.4.1.2. The Economic Incentive System -- 2.4.1.3. Creating Economic Opportunities -- 2.4.1.3.1. Poor People's Assets -- 2.4.1.3.2. Access to Markets -- 2.4.1.4. Excursion into Infrastructure Investment -- 2.4.2. Necessary Political Condition -- 2.4.2.1. Linkages Between Political Conditions and Economic Issues -- 2.4.2.2. Empowerment -- 2.4.2.2.1. Human Rights and Equality -- 2.4.2.2.2. Participation -- 2.4.2.2.3. Democratization -- 2.4.2.3. Good Governance -- 2.4.2.3.1. The Concept -- 2.4.2.3.2. Accountability, Decentralization and Transparency -- 2.4.2.3.3. Stemming Corruption -- 2.4.2.3.4. Rule of Law and Accessibility of the Law -- 2.4.3. Measures to Provide Security for Poor People -- 2.4.3.1. The Need for Security -- 2.4.3.2. The Role of Private vs. State Security Provision -- 2.4.3.3. Measures of State Security Provision -- 2.4.4. Comprehensiveness or Excessiveness? -- 2.5. International Regimes. ; 2.5.1. International Institutional Framework -- 2.5.1.1. Trade -- 2.5.1.2. Finance -- 2.5.1.3. Environment -- 2.5.2. The Donor Community -- 2.5.2.1. The Meaning of Partnership: Ownership, Conditionality and Political Dialogue -- 2.5.2.2. Donor Responsibilities: Donor Coordination, Cooperation and Policy Coherence -- 2.5.2.3. Knowledge, Alliances and Awareness Raising -- 2.6. Synopsis: Novelties and Challenges of the New Strategic Conception -- 2.7. Initiated Reforms -- 3. Differing Accentuations -- 3.1. Merits and Difficulties of Differing Focal Points -- 3.2. The World Bank -- 3.2.1. World Bank Background -- 3.2.2. Insights on Political Systems and Coalitions -- 3.2.3. National Security Schemes -- 3.2.4. Concerns for Macroeconomic Policy and Inequality -- 3.2.5. Reservation with Human Rights and Democracy -- 3.3. United Kingdom -- 3.3.1. UK's Background on Development Assistance -- 3.3.2. Concentration -- 3.3.3. International Development Targets and Impact Measurement -- 3.3.4. Knowledge -- 3.3.5. Globalization -- 3.3.6. New Strategic Areas: Water Scarcity and the Urban Poor -- 3.3.7. Long-term vs. Short-term Benefits -- 3.4. Germany -- 3.4.1. Germany's Background on Development Assistance -- 3.4.2. Support for Middle-income Countries -- 3.4.3. Peace and Conflict Prevention -- 3.4.4. Agrarian Development -- 3.4.5. Environmental Implications of Energy Supply -- 3.4.6. Alliances within Industrialized Nations -- 3.5. Sweden -- 3.5.1. The Background of Sweden's Development Cooperation -- 3.5.2. Knowledge and Education -- 3.5.3. Disabled People and Marginalized Groups -- 3.5.4. NGOs -- 3.5.4. Conditionality -- 3.6. Accentuations: Benefits or Hindrance? -- 3.7. Consolidation: Consensus and Accentuations -- 3.7.1. Consensus on Three Levels -- 3.7.2. Stronger Accentuations with Decreasing Level of Abstraction. ; 3.7.3. Synopsis of the New Consensus and its Accentuations -- 4. Implications for Project Evaluations -- 4.1. Increasing Importance of Impact Measurement -- 4.2. Background: The German Financial Cooperation and the KfW -- 4.3. Aim of the Empirical Study -- 4.4. Study Design -- 4.4.1. Variables -- 4.4.2. Sampling Procedure -- 4.5. Findings -- 4.5.1. Procedure of Analysis -- 4.5.2. Quantitative Analysis -- 4.5.3. Qualitative Analysis -- 4.6. Discussion of the Findings -- 4.7. Recommendations -- 4.8. Synopsis of the Empirical Study -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- ANNEX -- REFERENCES.
• Sommario/riassunto: Poverty remains one of the greatest problems of our time, causing starvation and humiliation in poor countries and contributing to problems of conflict, migration and environmental degradation effecting also richer countries. This study provides a systematical analysis of today’s donor strategies for development cooperation, which unite around the goal of poverty reduction. The most recent strategies of the World Bank and the German, British and Swedish official development agencies are compared and evaluated. Their broad consensus on goals and conceptual elements is comprehensively presented. Differences in accentuations regarding beneficiaries and implementation methods are highlighted. An empirical study of the poverty focus in project evaluations of the German Financial Cooperation rounds off the analysis by exemplarily pointing at the practical implications of the new strategies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Poverty reduction strategies
• ISBN: 3-631-75366-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910297039603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II