Eliminating Human Poverty: Macroeconomic and Social Policies for Equitable GrowthZed Books, 2007 - 432 pages 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Public expenditure on basic social services | 6 |
Mobilizing domestic and external resources | 7 |
Macroeconomic policies and institutions for propoor growth | 57 |
The inadequacy of public spending on basic social services | 97 |
The distribution of benefits of health and education spending | 134 |
Policies to enhance efficiency and improve delivery | 154 |
Governance reforms to address the systemic problems | 211 |
Promoting complementarity between public and private | 235 |
Taxation and mobilization of additional resources | 277 |
The consistency between aid and trade policies | 319 |
Conclusion | 358 |
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Transforming Asian Governance: Rethinking assumptions, challenging practices M Ramesh,Scott Fritzen No preview available - 2008 |