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Santosh Mehrotra - Eliminating Human Poverty - 9781842777732 - V9781842777732
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Eliminating Human Poverty

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Description for Eliminating Human Poverty Paperback. Drawing on their own broad-ranging research at UNICEF and UNDP, the authors argue that fiscal, monetary, and other macro-economic policies for poverty reduction, human development and economic growth can be compatible with micro-level interventions to provide basic social services. Series: International Studies in Poverty Research. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 680.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Series
International Studies in Poverty Research
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842777732
SKU
V9781842777732
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About Santosh Mehrotra
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. For the past 15 years he has worked on the human impact of macro-economic policy. ... Read more

Reviews for Eliminating Human Poverty
'This book has an ambitious agenda. It offers a framework for conceptualizing macroeconomic policies on the assumption that people matter. The authors demonstrate a sure grasp of the complexities of policy-making to reduce poverty. This book offers an indispensable guide to policy makers and development practitioners.' Professor Ajit Singh, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge 'This book gets to ... Read more

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