Full Description
This book highlights strategies for poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the power of the market mechanism and vigor of the private sector, focusing ODA on a few longer term challenges and leveraging advances in technology to the fullest, and underlining the importance of human rights and security.
Contents
Preface Poverty Reduction and Beyond: How Far toward the Goals?; T.Yamagata & T.Shiraishi PART I: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Free Markets and Economic Development; W.Easterly Reducing Poverty through Innovation; S.Yusuf PART II: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES Industrialization cum Poverty Reduction: The Cases of Bangladesh and Cambodia; T.Yamagata The Pledge to End Poverty: The Image and the Reality of International Aid for Health and Population; S.Mahmud What Is Happening in 'Poor' Africa?; K.Hirano Poverty Reduction and Human Security: The Experience from JICA's Foreign Aid; H.Kato & M.Kiyoka Panel Discussion
