World Development Report 2000/2001 Attacking Poverty

Kitap : World Development Report 2000/2001 Attacking Poverty

Dil : İngilizce

Bölüm : Sosyal Politika

Yayın Yeri : New York

ISBN : 0-19-521598-2

ISSN : 0163-5085

Yayın Tarihi : Ocak 2001

Yayıncı : Oxford University press

Tür : Rapor

Kitap No : 2099

İÇİNDEKİLER

Contents
Overview Attacking Poverty: Opportunity, Empowerment, and Security
Basrabai's story
Poverty in an unequal world
A strategy for poverty reduction
From strategy to action
Working together to fight poverty
Part I Framework
Chapter 1 The Nature and Evolution of Poverty
Poverty's many dimensions
Measuring poverty in its multiple dimensions
The evolution of poverty
Chapter 2 Causes of Poverty and a Framework for Action
The causes of poverty A framework for action
Part II Opportunity
Chapter 3 Growth, Inequality, and Poverty
Economic growth and poverty reduction
What drives economic growth?
Why are similar rates of growth associated with different rates of poverty reduction?
Economic growth and nonincome poverty
Chapter 4 Making Markets Work Better for Poor People
Have market reforms delivered growth?
Have market reforms delivered benefits to poor people?
Making markets do more for poor people
Chapter 5 Expanding Poor People's Assets and Tackling Inequalities
Assets and their synergies
Public action to facilitate the accumulation of assets
Redistributing public spending
Institutional reforms for effective delivery: governance, markets, and competition
Participation: choice, monitoring, and accountability
Complementarities in public action

Part III Empowerment
Chapter 6 Making State Institutions More Responsive to Poor People
Public administration and poverty reduction
Poor people and the rule of law
How can decentralization be made pro-poor?
The politics of poverty reduction: pro-poor coalitions
Political regimes and poverty
Chapter 7 Removing Social Barriers and Building Social Institutions
Gender discrimination and poverty Social stratification and poverty Social fragmentation and conflict Building social institutions and social capital
Part IV Security
Chapter 8 Helping Poor People Manage Risk
A typology of risks
The nature and magnitude of vulnerability Responses to risk by households and communities Policy responses for improving risk management
Chapter 9 Managing Economic Crises and Natural Disasters
Preventing and coping with economic crises Reducing vulnerability to natural disasters
Part V International Actions
Chapter 10 Harnessing Global Forces for Poor People
Expanding market access in high-income countries Reducing the risk of economic crises Producing pro-poor international public goods Ensuring a voice for poor people in global forums
Chapter 11 Reforming Development Cooperation to Attack Poverty
Making aid more effective in reducing poverty Relieving the debt burden of poor countries
Bibliographic Note
Selected World Development Indicators
Boxes
1 The voices of the poor
2 A better world for all: international development goals
1.1 Poverty in the voices of poor people
1.2 Measuring income poverty: 1899 and 1998

1.3 Measuring vulnerability
1.4 Measuring voice and power using participatory methods
1.5 Measuring governance: participatory methods and cross-country surveys
1.6 Multidimensionality: dealing with aggregation
1.7 Uganda's poverty reduction goals
1.8 Tracking poverty in India during the 1990s
2.1 On interacting with state institutions: the voices of the poor
2.2 Preventing famines: the local press matters
2.3 Attacking poverty in Vietnam
3.1 Population, growth, and poverty
3.2 How war devastates poor people
3.3 Divergence and worldwide income inequality
3.4 Inequality trends and poverty reduction
3.5 What makes growth pro-poor in India?
3.6 Complex patterns of distributional change in three economies
3.7 Diversification and migration in rural China
3.8 Redistribution can be good for efficiency
4.1 The Washington consensus
4.2 Why do reforms sometimes fail?
4.3 Agricultural reforms in Chile and China help small farmers
4.4 Land markets and poor peasants in Mexico
4.5 Listening to farmers in Zambia
4.6 Attacking poverty with information
5.1 Interactions between human and physical capital
5.2 Links between the environment and health
5.3 Win-win policies in the health sector
5.4 Locked out by health and education fees
5.5 Mexico's Progresa: paying parents to send children to school
5.6 Some general principles on how to design subsidies
5.7 Effective public-private partnership in immunization
5.8 Local entrepreneurs increase access to telecommunications services
5.9 Local participation in Nicaragua's decentralized education system
5.10 Single-sector and multisector arrangements for improving rural roads in Zambia
5.11 Rejuvenating India's forests through joint action
5.12 A new approach to land reform in Brazil
5.13 West African businesses pioneer water and sanitation services for the urban poor
5.14 Sustainable water and sanitation for Brazil's urban poor
6.1 Poor people are often harassed by public officials
6.2 Lawlessness contributes to poverty
6.3 Legal service organizations help poor people gain access to the protections of the legal system
6.4 Community monitoring can reduce environmental pollution
6.5 National coalitions against communicable diseases in the West
6.6 NGOs can help mobilize and empower communities
6.7 Politics and poverty in OECD countries
6.8 The evolution of civil society and state reform in Mexico
7.1 Making land titling less gender biased in Latin America
7.2 Using subsidies to close gender gaps in education

Boxes (continued)
7.3 Toward stronger female voice in policy-making: women's budget initiatives in southern Africa
7.4 Using development programs to break the power of agrarian elites: a case study from eastern Uttar Pradesh, India
7.5 Discrimination is psychologically devastating
7.6 Using affirmative action against caste-based discrimination in India
7.7 Ethnic divisions and civil conflict
7.8 How does social capital affect development?
7.9 The federation of comedores in Peru: the creation of linking social capital 7.10 Mobilizing and creating social capital in development projects
8.1 Poor people's exposure to risk
8.2 AIDS and poverty
8.3 Some key terms: risk, risk exposure, and vulnerability
8.4 Managing risk: the modular approach to social safety nets
8.5 Is targeting by the community a good idea?
8.6 Insurance options for the informal sector
8.7 Two universal health insurance systems: Costa Rica and Singapore
8.8 Social pensions in Chile and Namibia
8.9 Principles of successful workfare programs
8.10 The Eritrean Community Development Fund
8.11 The Self-Employed Women's Association of India
9.1 Providing social protection in response to crisis in the Republic of Korea
9.2 Public expenditure reviews to assess the impact of fiscal retrenchment on poor people . 9.3 Protecting poor people during fiscal adjustment: Peru's Fiscal Prudence and Transparency Law
9.4 Mitigation is the cornerstone of emergency management in the United States
9.5 Mitigating the risks of natural catastrophes: lessons from the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey
9.6 Turning reconstruction into risk mitigation with the help of a local NGO
9.7 Mitigating risk with catastrophe bonds
9.8 Sharing the costs of catastrophes: the Mexican fund for natural disasters 9.9 Involving communitities in postdisaster reconstruction: lessons
from the Maharashtra Emergency Earthquake Rehabilitation Program
10.1 A success story: the fight against river blindness in Africa
10.2 Research, maize, and pigs in rural Guizhou
10.3 Most biotechnology patents are private
10.4 The Global Environment Facility: a model for developing country participation
11.1 Learning about the consultative process through the Comprehensive Development Framework
11.2 The new poverty reduction strategy initiative
11.3 Sectorwide development cooperation
11.4 The common pool for development cooperation
11.5 Assessing country policies and institutions
11.6 How aid can help in countries with a weak policy environment
11.7 The Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Relief Initiative
11.8 How debt relief fits into a poverty reduction strategy: Uganda's Poverty Action Fund
Figures
1 Where the developing world's poor live
2 Where poverty has fallen, and where it has not
3 Infant mortality rates vary widely across the world

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