An Overview of Chronic Poverty and Development Policy in Uganda
Author: John Okidi
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781904049104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Okidi
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781904049104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: A. Shepherd
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-05-30
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1137316705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume includes material on inter-generational transmission, the importance of assets and vulnerability, and conflict, and new thinking about the close relationship between social exclusion and adverse incorporation.
Author: Isaac Shinyekwa
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9781904049333
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Aliber
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9781904049029
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kate Bird
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paper examines the fracture points, or areas of weakness and failure, in social policy formation - from agenda setting through to policy formation and its legitimisation. It suggests why it is that despite clearly identified severe and widespread problems, which have been shown to drive and maintain poverty and which are also clearly associated with marginalisation and vulnerability, policy makers may still fail to generate adequate responses. Social policies have been selected as the focus of this study because they are generally weakly addressed by the development and poverty policies of both donors and developing country governments. Five illustrative case studies in the paper identify the political economy and administrative barriers to policy innovation and implementation in Uganda and India, and from this analysis we draw conclusions of broader application. The selected issues are disability; mental illness; alcohol dependency; inheritance systems that privilege inheritance through the male line, and dispossess women as a result; and the near destitution of older people without support. These have not been selected because they necessarily affect a larger number of people than other issues or because they necessarily have the strongest causal link with chronic poverty, marginality or vulnerability, but rather because they represent a wide range of different groups of people and the policy responses to them are illustrative of the different fracture points in the policy formation and implementation process. Nevertheless, these issues are of considerable importance to many poor people in developing countries, and may prevent more orthodox approaches to poverty reduction - growth, health, education - from having their intended effects.
Author: Christopher B. Barrett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-21
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1317997476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Prior work has shown that there is a significant amount of turnover amongst the African poor as households exit and enter poverty. Some of this mobility can be attributed to regular movement back and forth in response to exogenous variability in climate, prices, health, etc. ('churning'). Other crossings of the poverty line reflect permanent shifts in long-term well-being associated with gains or losses of productive assets or permanent changes in asset productivity due, for example, to adoption of improved technologies or access to new, higher-value markets. Distinguishing true structural mobility from simple churning is important because it clarifies the factors that facilitate such important structural change. Conversely, it also helps identify the constraints that may leave other households caught in a trap of persistent, structural poverty. The papers in this book help to distinguish the types of poverty and to deepen understanding of the structural features and constraints that create poverty traps. Such an understanding allows communities, local governments and donors to take proactive, effective steps to combat persistent poverty in Africa. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.
Author: Dent, Valeda F.
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2014-01-31
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1466650443
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book investigates the relationship between local libraries and community development, from the historical roots of rural libraries to their influence on the literacy, economy, and culture of the surrounding region"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Frank Ellis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1134296282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This important new collection of contributions brings together current thinking on poverty reduction and rural livelihoods in developing countries. As well as leading economists in the field such as Frank Ellis and Chris Barrett, there are a number of contributors from developing countries themselves. The book examines both macroeconomic and microeconomic phenomena and contains wide range of case studies. Skilfully exposing the gap that exists between the rhetoric of poverty reduction strategies in capital cities and the practice of public sector delivery in rural areas, this key text will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers in the fields of rural development, rural livelihoods, poverty reduction strategies and Sub-Saharan Africa development as well as advisors and practitioners in international organizations.
Author: John Thoburn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1351160028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Professor Ian Livingstone is one of a small group of British development economists who have achieved international renown and recognition. The objective of this book is to pay tribute to his life's work, particularly those aspects which related to key but challenging development issues. These issues include, at a broad level, the understanding of the economic forces determining the development of low income economies, more detailed micro work on agricultural development (irrigation in particular), decentralisation and local government finance, small scale enterprises, and large scale manufacturing development. Themes running through his work relate to his over-riding concern for rigour and for socio-economic justice. Ian Livingstone consistently used the traditional tools of economic analysis as a means to increase understanding of development issues - in a way which was, itself, just as radical as the contributions of political scientists and sociologists. This volume has been produced with similar aims.