Buch, Englisch, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 668 g
Buch, Englisch, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 668 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-874375-0
Verlag: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford University Press
other groups to stay in power, and where these have been with low-income groups, the result may be a lasting and effective pro-poor strategy. Often pro-poor policies have been brought in not with progressive intentions, but out of fear that the state will fall apart unless pro-poor elements are incorporated
into government, and the most effective regimes in reducing poverty have seldom been the kindest and most benevolent. The ability to provide the poor with access to key markets, and in particular labour and capital, is crucial, and this in turn requires fiscal strength. Two crucial elements in the story are the ability to frame labour-intensive policies (given that labour is often the only thing that poor people are able to sell) and the design of effective tax and expenditure policies. Aid
donors can make a key contribution, partly through reinforcing recipients' fiscal capacity, but much more through providing technical support of the right kind.