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  Kenya: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy 2000 - 2003

  Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2000

  The strategy states that the primary development goal for Kenya is to achieve a broad-based, sustainable improvement in the standards of welfare of all Kenyans. The paper stresses the role not only of Government but of the the private sector, non-governmental and community based organisations in meeting the challenge of poverty reduction.
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  Sida documents in a poverty perspective

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000

  Study has three main aims:to assess how poverty has been analysed and presented in recent country strategy documents and evaluationsto present proposals for and develop for new assessment criteria on how Sida can measure changes in the quality of evaluationsreassess existing material with new critieriaMain observations stress the need to:make assumed linkages to poverty
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  Eighth Session of the ECA Conference of Ministers of Finance (Finance for Development in Africa - An issues paper)

  Financing for Development, 2000

  The aim of this Issues Paper is to review the mix of actions necessary to finance the developmental goals of Africa and to present policy options for the consideration of African Finance Ministers.Policy recommendations:While it is essential to mobilise all domestic resources to reduce the resource gap this will only be feasible in the long term.
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  SAPRIN challenges World Bank on failure of adjustment programs

  Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000

  This article emphasises the extent to which poverty, inequality and human suffering have increased in countries implementing the adjustment programs, that the international financial institutions (IFIs) had required as a condition for continued access to foreign capital.Conclusions:Designed to open and restructure economies on behalf of international investors, adjustment program
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  Harnessing global forces for poor people (Chapter 10, World Development Report)

  World Bank, 2000

  This chapter explores the kinds of global level actions, which can accelerate poverty reduction and help narrow the gaps, (in income, health, and other dimensions), between rich countries and poor.Key areas of international action for poverty reduction:Expanding market access in rich countries for developing countries' goods and servicesReducing the risk of economic crisesEncour
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  External shocks, financial crises, and poverty in developing countries

  World Bank, 2000

  This chapter ('External Shocks, Financial Crises and Poverty in Developing Countries'), of the World Bank report on 'Global Economic Prospects and Developing Countries':Reviews evidence about the impact on poverty of the external shocks and volatility to which developing countries are exposedPresents and assesses evidence of the impact of the 1997-98 financial crisis on poverty, in the
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  Alleviating poverty: role of good governance and constitutional reform

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000

  This article explores the role that good governance and constitutional reform might play in poverty alleviation in India.Policy recommendations:There is a need for the state to move out of many areas, which it has previously occupied.
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  Growth vs. distribution: does the pattern of growth matter?

  DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000

  Despite the fashion for pro-poor growth the term remains undefined.
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  Rethinking small enterprise development: between poverty and growth

  Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh, 1998

  The current policy fascination with pro-poor growth has important implications for the small enterprise development field.
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  Building social capital: collective action, adoption of agricultural innovations, and poverty reduction in the Indian semi-arid tropics

  International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, 2000

  Social capital - ability and willingness to co-operate and work together for achieving common goals, and developing norms and networks for collective action - is crucial for successful uptake, diffusion, and impact of technological innovations.Case studies from the states of Maharashtra and Rajasthan, focusing on technological innovations in three crops – pigeonpea, groundnut, and pearl millet,

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