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G-20 Declaration blog: disappointments and hopes

Dissapointed with the assumption that promoting growth will lead to poverty reduction. On the other hand, some more concrete points are made regarding development helping the poorest. What do you think?

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Pensions in Asia and the Pacific: ( Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2012); In addition to giving insights on the sustainability of public pensions and the pressures they face with the mounting demographic issues, Pensions at a Glance – Asia/Pacific Edition 2011 aims to...
Social capital helps women in Bangladesh to invest in their own and their children’s nutritional status: ( N. Kumar;A.R. Quisumbing / CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action , 2012); In Bangladesh, rural households headed by women are more likely to be among the poorest. This paper investigates the long–term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different i...
Social protection programmes do not focus on the needs of the elderly: ( D.E. Bloom;E. Jimenez;L. Rosenberg / Harvard Initiative for Global Health , 2011); Despite the growth and extent of social protection programmes (SP) in both developed and developing countries, most emerging economies have systems that are only just coming into existence. Subs...
How does construction affect disaster risk reduction?: ( L. Bosher;A. Dainty / Overseas Development Institute [ES] , 2011); This paper examines the role and position of the construction sector in addressing disaster risk reduction. It summarises some of the cross-cutting themes that emerge from a diverse body of literature...
Access to financial, physical and social capital assets is a prerequisite to reduce Nigerian rural poverty: ( J.O. LAWAL;B.T. OMONONA;O.D. OYINLEYE / AgEcon Search , 2011); The eradication of poverty in rural Nigeria remains a hard challenge for the country to overcome despite the various poverty eradication programmes implementation at different levels of government....
The challenges to disaster risk reduction as expressed by stakeholders in Imizamo Yethu, South Africa: ( A. Roth (ed);P. Becker (ed) / African Centre for Disaster Studies , 2011); South Africa is a dynamic, developing country in a challenging transition as it struggles to protect life and health, property, infrastructure and the environment from disasters. It is generally accep...
Does Malawi have the capacity to meet the Millennium Development Goals?: ( Government of Malawi , 2010); This paper presents the Malawi government's statement of progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The goals are implemented in Malawi through the medium term development strategy known as ...
Brazil's social security system is not sustainable in its current form: ( R. Alves de Mesquita;G. Balbinotto Neto / National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, Brazil , 2011); In two decades Brazil has built a comprehensive welfare state, but it is very costly and ill prepared to face the ageing of the Brazilian population - by 2050 Brazilians 65 or older will represe...
How can Asian economies prepare for their ageing populations?: ( S.-H. Lee;A. Mason;D. Park / Asian Development Bank , 2011); Asia faces the challenge of population ageing. Youthful populations that contributed substantially to growth in the past are maturing and countries that currently have relatively youthful populations ...
Communication technology can maximise the impact of food price changes on riots: ( M. Verpoorten;A. Arora / AgEcon Search , 2011); Both recent and historic events point to a close link between riots and food prices. This article aims at providing a credible estimate on the impact of food prices on social unrest manifested in t...