An enhanced strategy for reducing extreme poverty by the year 2015: interim report of the Millennium Project Task Force on Poverty and Economic Development

An enhanced strategy for reducing extreme poverty by the year 2015: interim report of the Millennium Project Task Force on Poverty and Economic Development

Published Jan 2004

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M. Pangestu, J. Sachs

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Framework for implementing MDGs

This report looks a framework for implementing the MDGs. The report offers:

  • a diagnosis of poverty, economic growth and poverty reduction, focusing on the countries making the least progress towards the MDGs and the reasons for “poverty traps.”
  • the core policy priorities that needed to be emphasized in any national strategy to break out of a poverty trap
  • a framework for countries to operationalize MDG-based poverty reduction strategies with the support of the international system.
  • an application of the report’s MDG-based framework for analysis and policy prescription to a country, Tanzania, outlining the broad range of public investments that need to be made for Tanzania to achieve the MDGs.

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