ANNE BOOTH is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her main focus of research is the economic development of South East Asia and she is co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan series on the Modern Economic History of South East Asia. She has published a number of books, including The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities. - PAUL MOSLEY is Professor of Economics at the University of Sheffield and was formerly President of the Development Studies Association. He is author of Overseas Aid: Its Defence and Reform; Aid and Power (with John Toye and Jane Harrigan); and Finance against Poverty (with David Hulme) as well as a number of papers on development and political economy issues.

• List of Tables Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION Introduction; P.Mosley PART II: DONOR PERSPECTIVES The Poverty Reduction Strategies of the Development Cooperation Agencies in the 1990s: Their Record and What They Need to Do; A.Cox & J. Healey Poverty Reduction in Swedish Development Cooperation: Policies and Practice; D.Ehrenpries Poverty and Structural Adjustment: Some Remarks on Trade-offs Between Equity and Growth; R.van der Hoeven PART III: POVERTY, CRISES AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT Poverty Versus The Poor; G.Pyatt The Impact of Economic Crisis on Poverty and Income Distribution: An Indonesian Case Study, 1997-99; A.Booth The Incipient African Green Revolution and Pro-Poor Growth; P.Mosley Poverty in Rural Ethiopia 1989-95: Evidence from Household Panel Data; S.Dercon & P.Krishnan PART IV: SOCIAL PROTECTION, GOVERNANCE AND POVERTY TARGETRY Rights, Institutions and Poverty; A.Joshi & M.Moore Gender in the World Bank's Poverty Assessments: Six Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa; A.Whitehead & M.Lockwood Attaining the International Development Targets: Will Growth be Enough?; L.Hanmer & F.Naschold Index