Poverty Reduction Strategies : : A Comparative Study Applied to Empirical Research.

• Superior document: Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series ; v.10
• Author: Kircher, Philipp.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2002.; Ã2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF ANNEXES -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Aim of the Analysis -- 1.2. Examination Procedure -- 1.3. Strategies Reviewed in the Analysis -- 1.4. The Role of Poverty Reduction: Poverty Reduction vs. Other Developmental Goals -- 2. Poverty Reduction as Focal Point of Development Cooperation: The International Consensus -- 2.1. The Evolution Towards the Current Consensus -- 2.1.1. Overview -- 2.1.2. Growth -- 2.1.3. Redistribution with Growth -- 2.1.4. Basic Needs Approach -- 2.1.5. Free Market Forces -- 2.2. Today's Understanding of Poverty Reduction -- 2.3. Poverty Definitions beyond Monetary Income -- 2.3.1. Conceptual Dimensions of Poverty Definitions -- 2.3.2. The Current Poverty Definition -- 2.3.3. International Development Targets -- 2.4. The Domestic Framework for Poverty Reduction -- 2.4.1. Economic Framework -- 2.4.1.1. Growth and Equality -- 2.4.1.2. The Economic Incentive System -- 2.4.1.3. Creating Economic Opportunities -- 2.4.1.3.1. Poor People's Assets -- 2.4.1.3.2. Access to Markets -- 2.4.1.4. Excursion into Infrastructure Investment -- 2.4.2. Necessary Political Condition -- 2.4.2.1. Linkages Between Political Conditions and Economic Issues -- 2.4.2.2. Empowerment -- 2.4.2.2.1. Human Rights and Equality -- 2.4.2.2.2. Participation -- 2.4.2.2.3. Democratization -- 2.4.2.3. Good Governance -- 2.4.2.3.1. The Concept -- 2.4.2.3.2. Accountability, Decentralization and Transparency -- 2.4.2.3.3. Stemming Corruption -- 2.4.2.3.4. Rule of Law and Accessibility of the Law -- 2.4.3. Measures to Provide Security for Poor People -- 2.4.3.1. The Need for Security -- 2.4.3.2. The Role of Private vs. State Security Provision -- 2.4.3.3. Measures of State Security Provision -- 2.4.4. Comprehensiveness or Excessiveness? -- 2.5. International Regimes.

2.5.1. International Institutional Framework -- 2.5.1.1. Trade -- 2.5.1.2. Finance -- 2.5.1.3. Environment -- 2.5.2. The Donor Community -- 2.5.2.1. The Meaning of Partnership: Ownership, Conditionality and Political Dialogue -- 2.5.2.2. Donor Responsibilities: Donor Coordination, Cooperation and Policy Coherence -- 2.5.2.3. Knowledge, Alliances and Awareness Raising -- 2.6. Synopsis: Novelties and Challenges of the New Strategic Conception -- 2.7. Initiated Reforms -- 3. Differing Accentuations -- 3.1. Merits and Difficulties of Differing Focal Points -- 3.2. The World Bank -- 3.2.1. World Bank Background -- 3.2.2. Insights on Political Systems and Coalitions -- 3.2.3. National Security Schemes -- 3.2.4. Concerns for Macroeconomic Policy and Inequality -- 3.2.5. Reservation with Human Rights and Democracy -- 3.3. United Kingdom -- 3.3.1. UK's Background on Development Assistance -- 3.3.2. Concentration -- 3.3.3. International Development Targets and Impact Measurement -- 3.3.4. Knowledge -- 3.3.5. Globalization -- 3.3.6. New Strategic Areas: Water Scarcity and the Urban Poor -- 3.3.7. Long-term vs. Short-term Benefits -- 3.4. Germany -- 3.4.1. Germany's Background on Development Assistance -- 3.4.2. Support for Middle-income Countries -- 3.4.3. Peace and Conflict Prevention -- 3.4.4. Agrarian Development -- 3.4.5. Environmental Implications of Energy Supply -- 3.4.6. Alliances within Industrialized Nations -- 3.5. Sweden -- 3.5.1. The Background of Sweden's Development Cooperation -- 3.5.2. Knowledge and Education -- 3.5.3. Disabled People and Marginalized Groups -- 3.5.4. NGOs -- 3.5.4. Conditionality -- 3.6. Accentuations: Benefits or Hindrance? -- 3.7. Consolidation: Consensus and Accentuations -- 3.7.1. Consensus on Three Levels -- 3.7.2. Stronger Accentuations with Decreasing Level of Abstraction.

3.7.3. Synopsis of the New Consensus and its Accentuations -- 4. Implications for Project Evaluations -- 4.1. Increasing Importance of Impact Measurement -- 4.2. Background: The German Financial Cooperation and the KfW -- 4.3. Aim of the Empirical Study -- 4.4. Study Design -- 4.4.1. Variables -- 4.4.2. Sampling Procedure -- 4.5. Findings -- 4.5.1. Procedure of Analysis -- 4.5.2. Quantitative Analysis -- 4.5.3. Qualitative Analysis -- 4.6. Discussion of the Findings -- 4.7. Recommendations -- 4.8. Synopsis of the Empirical Study -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- ANNEX -- REFERENCES.