ABSTRACT
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a joint initiative at the end of 1999, stating that they intended to set the fight against poverty at the heart of their development policies. This book provides the expert, critical analysis of the poverty reduction strategies that is needed. Originally published in French and updat
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|24 pages
Poverty, inequality of conditions and inequality of opportunities
Chances and risks of new strategies
chapter 5|23 pages
Do they really think differently?
The voice of the poor through quantitative surveys
part |2 pages
PART II Scope and limitations of the new international initiatives
chapter 8|16 pages
Poverty reduction in Mali: will the PRSP make a difference?
Will the PRSP process make a difference?
chapter 11|26 pages
The existing systems for monitoring poverty
Weaknesses of the usual household surveys
chapter 12|18 pages
The different approaches to measuring poverty in Europe
What lessons for the LDCs?
chapter 13|27 pages
Two original poverty monitoring tools
The 1-2-3 surveys and the Rural Observatories
chapter 14|31 pages
Evaluating poverty reduction policies: the contribution of micro-simulation techniques
The contribution of micro- simulation techniques
