The Universal Social Safety-Net and the Attack on World Poverty

Pressing Need, Manageable Cost, Practical Possibilities, Favourable Spillovers

Anthony Clunies-Ross, Mozammel Huq (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2013
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-52766-8 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap. This must be done country by country, on the initiative of each country’s government: with the maximum involvement of its own civil society, and with the rich world also making a contribution. To add momentum, the international community needs to adopt targets far more specific than the fifty percent extreme ‘poverty reduction’ of the first Millennium Development Goal.

Anthony Clunies-Ross is Emeritus Professor at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. His publications include Taxation of Mineral Rents (jointly with Ross Garnaut, Clarendon Press, 1983), and he is co-author (with David Forsyth and Mozammel Huq) of Development Economics (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Mozammel Huq teaches at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and is also Visiting Professor of Economics at Uttar Bangla College (National University, Bangladesh). He is the author of a number of books including The Economy of Ghana: The First 25 Years since Independence (Macmillan, 1989), and is co-author (with David Forsyth and Anthony Clunies-Ross) of Development Economics (McGraw-Hill, 2009).

Part I: Case for a Safety Net 1. Paradox Need and Opportunity 2. Three Sages and Two New Messages 3. The Basic Case 4. Size of the Extreme Poverty Gap Part II: Ways and Means 5. Targeting the Poor and Fixing Rates 6. Difficulties and Obstacles 7. Financing Social Safety Nets 8. Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) 9. Employment Guaranteses 10. Paying for Health Care 11. The @other' Millenium Development Goals: Compeetition or Synergy? 12. Politics of Safety Nets: Turning Aspiration into Reality Part III: Another Window 13. The NGOs and Microcredit in Bangladesh Part IV: Summary 14. Imperative and Hope

Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Development Economics
Zusatzinfo	22 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-415-52766-X / 041552766X
ISBN-13	978-0-415-52766-8 / 9780415527668
Zustand	Neuware