Eliminating Human Poverty
Subtitle: Macroeconomic and Social Policies for Equitable Growth (International Studies in Poverty Research)
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 29, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781842777725
Subjects: Development studies; Macroeconomics; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Development - Economic Development; Business & Economics / Economic Development; Economics - Macroeconomics; Poverty; Public Policy - Social Policy; Developing countries; Government policy; Human services
Description: This examination of how basic social services, particularly education, health and water, can be financed and delivered more effectively departs from the dominant macro-economic paradigm. Drawing on their own broad-ranging research at UNICEF and UNDP, the authors argue that fiscal, monetary, and other macro-economic policies for poverty reduction, human development and economic growth can be compatible with micro-level interventions to provide basic social services. Policymakers have more flexibility than is usually assumed to engage in macro-economic and growth-oriented policies that can also expand human capabilities and fulfill human rights. More than just more aid is needed. Strategic shifts in aid policy, decentralized governance, health and education and the private-public mix in service provision are a prerequisite to achieve the goals of human development and to eliminate human poverty within a generation.