Eliminating Human Poverty

Macroeconomic and Social Policies for Equitable Growth

AvSantosh Mehrotra,Enrique Delamonica

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-07-04
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:448
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781848136557
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Serie:International Studies in Poverty Research

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Santosh Mehrotra is a human development economist educated at the New School for Social Research, New York, and the University of Cambridge where he did his doctorate. He was Associate Professor in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, before moving to the United Nations in 1991. Enrique Delamonica is an economist and political scientist educated at the University of Buenos Aires, Columbia University, and the New School for Social Research. For almost 15 years, as a consultant for UNICEF and UNDP and a policy analyst in UNICEF Headquarters, he has worked on the impact of macroeconomic policies on children, poverty reduction strategies, financing of social services and budget allocations, the analysis of trends in socio-economic disparities, child poverty measurement, and social protection policies. Currently he teaches at Saint Peter's College in New Jersey.

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This book is the blueprint for eradicating world poverty in the 21st century. Forget Stiglitz, move on from Sachs: this book based on over a decade of committed work in UNDP and UNICEF marks the real turning point away from neo-liberalism in the global discourse about economic and social policy.

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IntroductionPart I: Macroeconomic Policies1. Integrating macroeconomic and social policies to trigger synergies2. Macroeconomic policies and institutions for pro-poor growthPart II: Public expenditure on basic health services3. The inadequacy of public spending on basic social services4. The distribution of benefits of health and education spending5. Policies to enhance efficiency and improve delivery in the public provision of basic social services6. Governance reforms to address the systemic problems of state provision of basic services7. Promoting complementarity between public and private provisionPart III: Mobilizing domestic and external resources8. Taxation and mobilization of additional resources for public social services9. The consistency between aid and trade policies and the Millennium GoalsConclusion