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.