The twin challenges of reducing poverty and creating employment
By: Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Social Policy and Development
Series: Economic & social affairs; Economic & social affairs
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9789211303278
Subjects: Poverty; Government policy; Job creation; Economic development; Labor policy; Armutsbekämpfung; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Entwicklungsländer; Schwellenländer
Notes: "This publication is based on presentations made at two Expert Group Meetings on "Poverty Eradication" and "The Challenge of Building Employment for a Sustainable Recovery" which were organized by the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (UN/DESA) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland in June 2011."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Donald Lee, Marta Roig and Amson Sibanda; title: Poverty matters / Jomo Kwame Sundaram; title: Education and the roles of the State and the market in poverty eradication / Minquan Liu; title: Governance, development and poverty eradication / Goran Hyden; title: Agriculture, rural livelihoods and poverty eradication: some policy lessons from the food price crises / Bettina Prato; title: Sustaining effective anti-poverty programmes beyond transformation: challenges and way forward / Julian May; title: Employment matters / Jomo Kwame Sundaram; title: Macroeconomic policy after the global recession of 2008-2009: a development perspective / Iyanatul Islam; title: The distributional effects of fiscal austerity / Laurence Ball, Davide Furceri, Daniel Leigh and Prakash Loungani; title: Achieving full, productive and freely chosen employment for young people / Steven Miller; title: Financing social and labour market policies in times of crisis and beyond / Katja Hujo; title: Crisis-driven labour market programmes: the experience of Latin America and the Caribbean / Jacqueline Mazza and Danilo Fernandes Lima da Silva; title: Employment challenges in the Middle East and North Africa / Azita Berar.