ECONIS Select – Fighting Against Poverty in the Crisis Aftermath

06/2009

Poverty reduction has become the central objective of development policy, as evidenced for example by the formulation of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While economic growth is regarded as an important ingredient to achieve sustainable poverty reduction, the emerging consensus is that growth has to be pro-poor in order to reach ambitious targets such as those laid out in the MDGs.

There is much less consensus about interventions to address inequality within developing countries, even though they might directly contribute to poverty reduction, especially in very unequal societies. Should a poverty strategy have a growth bias or instead mainly concentrate on empowering the poor to benefit from growth? Does lowering inequality promote or hinder economic growth? And how does the level of initial inequality affect the impact of growth on poverty reduction?

The lack of consensus is arguably due to the fact that measures tackling inequality tend to involve larger trade-offs between equity and efficiency. Inequality-reducing policies may target household assets or household income, gender discrimination or discrimination of ethnic minorities, and backward regions. Should land reforms, for example, be strictly market-based or can they involve partial confiscation of land? To which extent can the tax and expenditure system be used for explicitly redistributive purposes? What is the scope for relying on progressive income taxation in developing countries?

Literature selected from our database ECONIS:

• Paper: Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) making headway in promoting pro-poor growth necessary for the attainment of the MDGs in Africa? / Afeikhena Jerome, Oluyele Akinkugbe and Francis Chigunta
  In: New growth and poverty alleviation strategies for Africa . - Münster : Lit, ISBN 978-3-8258-1542-4. - 2008, S. 263-294
  Keywords: Armutspolitik / Wirtschaftswachstum / Millennium Development Goals / Afrika
• Title: Natural resources and pro-poor growth : the economics and politics / OECD, [Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and Development]
  Institution: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  Year: Paris : OECD Publ., 2008
  Series: DAC guidelines and reference series : A good practice paper
  Keywords: Natürliche Ressourcen / Armut / Wirtschaftswachstum / Entwicklungsländer
  Signature: C 257993
• Paper: Pro-poor growth in Asia : conceptual debates, empirical evidence, and some lessons learnt / Myriam Hadnes and Rainer Klump
  In: The social and ecological market economy . - Eschborn : GTZ. - 2008, S. 106-133
  Keywords: Wirtschaftswachstum / Einkommensverteilung / Armut / Südostasien / Bangladesch / China / Indien / Indonesien / Vietnam
• Paper: Global estimates of pro-poor growth / Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani
  In: World development . - Amsterdam : Elsevier Science, ISSN 0305-750x, ZDB-ID 1853399. - Bd. 36.2008, 6, S. 1048-1066
  Keywords: Armut / Einkommensverteilung / Wirtschaftswachstum / Inflation / Außenhandelsliberalisierung / Low-Income Countries / Entwicklungsländer / Schwellenländer / 1984-2001
• Paper: Pro-poor growth : the Asian experience / Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son
  In: Globalization and the poor in Asia . - Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-230-20188-1. - 2008, S. 24-46
  Keywords: Wirtschaftswachstum / |stw| Einkommensverteilung / |stw| Armut / |stw| Armutspolitik / |stw| Asien
• Title: Income distribution dynamics and pro-poor growth in the world from 1970 to 2003 / Hajo Holzmann; Sebastian Vollmer; Julian Weisbrod
  Year: Aug. 2007
  Anbieter: Göttingen : Ibero-Amerika-Inst. für Wirtschaftsforschung
  Series: Discussion papers / Ibero America Institute for Economic Research ; 161
  Keywords: Einkommensverteilung / Armut / Soziale Ungleichheit / Entwicklungskonvergenz / Wirtschaftswachstum / Welt / 1970-2003
  Link: http://www.iai.wiwi.uni-goettingen.de/klasen/DB161.pdf
• Title: Alternative development financing mechanisms : pre-crisis trends and post-crisis outlook / Sam Jones
  København : Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, 2009 Series: DIIS Reports / Danish Institute for International Studies ; 2009,11
  Keywords: Entwicklungshilfe / Entwicklungsfinanzierung / Millennium Development Goals / Internationaler Finanzmarkt / Finanzmarktkrise / Low-Income Countries
  Link: http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publi...09_11_Alternative_development.pdf
• Paper: New growth and poverty alleviation strategies for Afica : international research trends / Tino Urban
  In: New growth and poverty alleviation strategies for Africa . - Münster : Lit, ISBN 978-3-8258-1542-4. - 2008, S. 585-606
  Keywords: Wachstumspolitik / Armutspolitik / Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung / Entwicklungskooperation / Ländliche Entwicklung / Millennium Development Goals / Afrika
• Title: Overview : a future within reach 2008 ; regional partnerships for the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific / Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ...
  Institution: United Nations / Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
  Year: New York, NY : United Nations, 2008
  Keywords: Millennium Development Goals / Asiatisch-pazifischer Raum
  Link: Table of contents; 2009-01-06
  Signature: A 255180
• Title: Latin America and the Caribbeans challenge to reach the MDGs : financing options and trade-offs / Rob Vos, Marco V. Sánchez and Cornelia Kaldewei
  Year: New York, NY : United Nations, Dep. of Economic and Social Affairs, Sept. 2008
  Series: DESA working paper ; 68 Economic and social affairs
  Keywords: Millennium Development Goals / Entwicklungsstrategie / Entwicklungsfinanzierung / Lateinamerika / Karibische Staaten
  Link: http://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers/2008/wp68_2008.pdf
• Paper: Whither rural development? : the present-day policy debate in perspective / Henk Huisman
  In: Journal of development alternatives and area studies . - San Antonio, Tex. : Bethany Books, ISSN 1651-9728, ZDB-ID 20489614. - Bd. 27.2008, 3/4, S. 45-69
  Keywords: Ländliche Entwicklung / Ländliche Entwicklungsfinanzierung / Entwicklungshilfe / Entwicklungspolitik / Entwicklungstheorie / Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung / Armutspolitik / Entwicklungsländer / 1945-2005
• Paper: The poverty curtain revisited : reflections on the Doha Development Agenda / G. Jason Goddard; Riad A. Ajami
  In: Journal of Asia Pacific business . - Binghamton, NY : International Business Pr., ISSN 1059-9231, ZDB-ID 13055793. - Bd. 9.2008, 3, S. 292-310
  Keywords: Entwicklungsstrategie / Entwicklungshilfe / Armutspolitik / Internationale Handelspolitik / Welt
• Paper: The aid paradigm for poverty reduction : does it make sense? / John Weiss
  In: Development policy review . - Oxford [u.a.] : Blackwell, ISSN 0078-7116, ZDB-ID 8793499. - Bd. 26.2008, 4, S. 407-426
  Keywords: Entwicklungshilfe / Entwicklungshilfekonditionen / Armutspolitik / Good Governance / Sozialer Wandel
• Title: Can the West save Africa? / William Easterly
  Year: Cambridge, Mass., 2008
  Series: NBER working paper series ; 14363
  Keywords: Entwicklungshilfe / Entwicklungspolitik / Katastrophenhilfe / Armutspolitik / Entwicklung / Industriestaaten / Afrika
  Signature: W 1 (14363)
  Link: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14363.pdf
• Paper: Embedding social protection in the developing world / Armando Barrientos and David Hulme
  In: Social protection for the poor and poorest . - Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-230-52530-X. - 2008, S. 315-330
  Keywords: Entwicklungspolitik / Armut / Entwicklungshilfe / Soziale Gerechtigkeit / Armutspolitik / Entwicklung / Prognose / Entwicklungsländer
• Paper: Looking ahead optimally in allocating aid / Adrian Wood
  In: World development . - Amsterdam : Elsevier Science, ISSN 0305-750x, ZDB-ID 1853399. - Bd. 36.2008, 7, S. 1135-1151
  Keywords: Entwicklungshilfe / Armutspolitik / Millennium Development Goals
• Title: Bailing out the worlds poorest / Martin Ravallion
  Year: Washington, DC : World Bank, Development Research Group, Directors Off., Oct. 2008
  Series: Policy research working paper ; 4763
  Keywords: Finanzmarktkrise / Welt / Armut / Entwicklungsländer
  Link: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/exte...29084618/Rendered/PDF/WPS4763.pdf
• Title: Financial development and poverty reduction : can there be a benefit without a cost? / Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney and Kangni Kpodar
  Year: Washington, DC : Internat. Monetary Fund, 2008
  Series: IMF working paper ; 08/62
  Keywords: Finanzmarkt / Armut / Entwicklungsländer / 1966-2000
  Signature: W 128 (08.62)
  Link: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2008/wp0862.pdf
• Title: Poverty reduction that works : experience of scaling up development success / ed. by Paul Steele, Neil Fernando and Maneka Weddikkara
  Year: Sterling, Va. : Earthscan, 2008
  Keywords: Armut / Armutspolitik / Entwicklung / Entwicklungshilfe / Millennium Development Goals / Entwicklungsländer
  Link: Table of contents
  Signature: B 359418
• Title: International development : issues and challenges / Damien Kingsbury ...
  Year: Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] : Pagrave Macmillan, 2008
  Keywords: Wirtschaftswachstum / Entwicklung / Entwicklungshilfe / Entwicklungspolitik / Armut / Entwicklungsländer / 1980-2006
  Signature: B 358562