Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action

Perspectives and Lessons from Ghana

AvJoe Amoako-Tuffour,Bartholomew Armah

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Since the inception of the HIPC Initiative, the story of the design and implementation of poverty alleviation strategies has largely been told through the filters of development partners and the Bretton Woods Institutions. Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action examines the efforts in Ghana to reduce poverty and initiate changes that it believes are essential to ensure a prosperous future for its citizens in the 21st century. It chronicles the achievements, pitfalls, and looming challenges of a government, its people, and its external partners in fashioning out and implementing anti-poverty and pro-growth policies. This edited volume, by a group of independent researchers, examines Ghana's experience: what was done, how it was done, what was left undone, the lessons learned, and fills the void in the development literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-07-02
Mått:153 x 231 x 27 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Key Concepts in Philosophy
Antal sidor:366
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739129654

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Joe Amoako-Tuffour is associate professor of economics at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and a research associate at the Centre for Policy Analysis in Ghana.Bartholomew Armah is senior policy advisor at the United Nations Economic Commission of Africa in Addis Ababa.

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Part 1 Part I. Poverty, Inequality, and Reform ApproachesChapter 2 Chapter 1. Introduction: Poverty Reduction in GhanaChapter 3 Chapter 2. The Evolution of Poverty in Ghana: 1960-2000Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The North-South Divide and the Disappearing Middle-Class: An Analysis of Spatial Inequality and Polarization in GhanaChapter 5 Chapter 4. From SAPs to PRSPs: A Tale of Two Paradigms or Simply a Tale?Part 6 Part II. Designing, Implementing, Financing, and Monitoring the GPRSChapter 7 Chapter 5. Public Consultations, the Role of Civil Servants, and Development Partners in Ghana's Poverty Reduction StrategyChapter 8 Chapter 6. Linking Poverty Reduction Strategies to the BudgetChapter 9 Chapter 7. Towards an Architecture for the Delivery of International Development AssistanceChapter 10 Chapter 8. Monitoring Poverty Reduction StrategiesPart 11 Part III. Special Topics in Poverty ReductionChapter 12 Chapter 9. Decentralization, Poverty Reduction, and the Ghana Poverty Reduction StrategyChapter 13 Chapter 10. Tackling Child Poverty in GhanaChapter 14 Chapter 11. Employment Generation for Poverty AlleviationChapter 15 Chapter 12. Informal Sector Activities and Urban Poverty in Ghana: Patterns and Poverty Policy OptionsChapter 16 Chapter 13. Achieving Gender Equity in Ghana: How Useful is the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy?Chapter 17 Chapter 14. Environmental Sustainability and Poverty Reduction in GhanaPart 18 Part IV. Lessons and What NextChapter 19 Chapter 15. Conclusions and Policy Lessons: The Next Generation of Poverty Reduction Strategies