Format:
1 online resource (170 pages)
ISBN:
9781280084034
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Part I Africa's Poverty Problem -- 1. A First View -- The Growth of African Poverty -- The Danger of Overgeneralizing -- Conclusion -- 2. Different Poverty Concepts Can Point in Different Directions -- Different Poverty Concepts -- Why Conceptualizations Matter -- 3. African Poverty Has Many Dimensions -- Categories and Characteristics -- Profiles of African Poverty -- The Nature of African Poverty Is Changing -- The Sobering Implications of Complexity -- Part II The Causes of Poverty -- 4. Overview of the Proximate and Primary Causes of Poverty -- The Danger and Value of Generalization -- The Interaction of Causes and Effects -- Some Neglected Causes -- Proximate versus Primary Causes -- Some Policy Implications -- 5. Economic Stagnation Has Caused Much Poverty -- Growth and Distribution: The Overall Picture -- Africa's Growth Has Often Been Slow but May Be Improving -- The Poor May Not be Able to Benefit from Growth -- Growth Affects Poverty Groups Differently -- Conclusion -- 6. Why Has Growth Been So Poor? -- Causes of Low Growth: the Usual Suspects -- Are Bad Policies to Blame? -- Agricultural Backwardness Is Particularly Serious, but the Causes Go Deep -- Economic Reform Programs and Poverty Reduction -- Global Factors Have Not Been a Major Reason for Slow Growth -- Conclusion -- 7. Both Governments and Markets Have Failed the Poor -- Political Systems Have Contributed to Economic Stagnation -- Political Systems Have Also Tended to Keep Poverty off the Agenda -- Some Markets Fail the Poor -- What Does the Future Hold? -- 8. The Poor Have Inadequate Capital -- A Weak Asset Base Undermines Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural Areas.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821348673
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821348673
Language:
English
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