Overcoming Human Poverty

This text examines the campaign against human poverty and strategies that could end it. It discusses how developing countries are being encouraged to set global targets to reduce it, based on commitments made at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development.

This text examines the campaign against human poverty and strategies that could end it. It discusses how developing countries are being encouraged to set global targets to reduce it, based on commitments made at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development.

What is Poverty Poverty may be defined as a state or circumstance in which an individual does not possess the necessary supplies and financial resources to maintain a particular level of living. The causes and effects of poverty can vary greatly depending on the social, economic, and political context. There are two primary ways to evaluate poverty in the fields of statistics and economics: absolute poverty is a comparison of a person's income to the amount required to meet fundamental personal needs, such as food, clothing, and shelter; relative poverty is a measurement of the degree to which a person is unable to meet a minimum level of living standards in comparison to others experiencing the same situation at the same time and location. From one nation to another, or even from one community to another, the concept of relative poverty can be understood in a variety of ways. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Poverty Chapter 2: Extreme poverty Chapter 3: Developing country Chapter 4: Poverty threshold Chapter 5: Economic inequality Chapter 6: Recession Chapter 7: Poverty reduction Chapter 8: Poverty in Australia Chapter 9: International inequality Chapter 10: Poverty in India Chapter 11: Income inequality in the United States Chapter 12: Poverty in China Chapter 13: Poverty in Canada Chapter 14: Poverty in the United States Chapter 15: Rural poverty Chapter 16: Causes of poverty Chapter 17: Income inequality in India Chapter 18: Poverty in the Philippines Chapter 19: Poverty gap index Chapter 20: Poverty in New Zealand Chapter 21: Wealth inequality in Latin America (II) Answering the public top questions about poverty. (III) Real world examples for the usage of poverty in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of poverty.

International experts evaluate new policy directions in economic development and poverty reduction, building on the ideas of a pioneer in the new discipline of Development Studies, Frances Stewart. Combing ideas and evidence on technological change, human development and conflict prevention to address the issue of the persistence of inequality

This book focuses on the provision of basic social services - in particular, access to education, health and water supplies - as the central building blocks of any human development strategy. The authors concentrate on how these basic social services can be financed and delivered more effectively to achieve the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals. Their analysis, which departs from the dominant macro-economic paradigm, deploys the results of broad-ranging research they led at UNICEF and UNDP, investigating the record on basic social services of some 30 developing countries. In seeking to learn from these new data, they develop an analytical argument around two potential synergies: at the macro level, between poverty reduction, human development and economic growth, and at the micro level, between interventions to provide basic social services. Policymakers, they argue, can integrate macro-economic and social policy. Fiscal, monetary, and other macro-economic policies can be compatible with social sector requirements. They make the case that policymakers have more flexibility than is usually presented by orthodox writers and international financial institutions, and that if policymakers engaged in alternative macro-economic and growth-oriented policies, this could lead to the expansion of human capabilities and the fulfillment of human rights. This book explores some of these policy options. The book also argues that more than just additional aid is needed. Specific strategic shifts in the areas of aid policy, decentralized governance, health and education policy and the private-public mix in service provision are a prerequisite to achieve the goals of human development. The combination of governance reforms and fiscal and macro-economic policies outlined in this book can eliminate human poverty in the span of a generation.