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Books and Media
New International Poverty Programmes: Neo-liberalism with a human face?
Social security – victim of neo-liberalism?
Decentralisation in Mozambique – input to peace and democracy
Many donors, little efficiency
11/2003 |
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There is no need to reinvent ways to reduce poverty, for they have long been known – especially that of building industrialisation upon an agricultural base. Much would already be achieved if "obvious truths" such as this were taken into account in the current debate on strategies to reduce poverty, writes Dieter Senghaas in issue 2/2003 of the Austrian Journal of Development Studies. The contributions place little hope in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers initiated by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Mere social policy measures are not enough to alleviate the impoverishment caused by the unjust world economic relationships. In another article, Robert Kappel shows himself to be at a loss over the problems of the economies that are dependent upon raw materials exports or totally isolated. He writes that development research so far has been unclear on how progress can be achieved in these countries. (ell)
Journal für Entwicklungspolitik [Austrian Journal of Development Studies] Vol. XIX, 2/2003: Neue Internationale Armutsprogramme: Neoliberalismus mit menschlichem Gesicht? [New International Poverty Programmes: Neo-liberalism with a human face?], Vienna, Mandelbaum Verlag 2003, 116 pp., Euro 9.80, ISBN 3-85476-093-0 [in German]
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