Development Planning and Poverty Reduction

The stated aim of much development assistance is the reduction of poverty. This book examines how development interventions might be more effectively targeted to achieve this aim. Part One provides an overview of planning for poverty reduction, and evidence on the extent and causes of poverty. Part Two examines participatory approaches to development planning. Part Three assesses macro-economic strategies and programmes for poverty reduction. Part Four concludes with a microeconomic analysis of the distribution of benefits from investment projects.

P.B. ANAND Environmental EconomistSTEPHEN L. ATKINS Technical Assistant on a European Union funded poverty reduction and agricultural diversification programme, JamaicaRICHARD BOMD Freelance Development Consultant and Honorary Research Fellow, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UKPAUL FRANCIS Senior Lecturer, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UKCAROLINE HARPER Director of Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, London, UKHOSSEIN JALILAN Senior Lecturer, Bradford Centre for International Development, UKELIO LONDERO Principal Economist, Inter-American Development BankROSEMARY MCGEE Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex ,UKMICHAEL TRIBE Honarary Research Post, Bradford Centre for International Development, University of Bradford, UKANTHONY TSEKPO Economist, Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of GhanaEMMANUEL TUMUSIIME-MUTEBILE Governor of the Bank of UgandaJOHN WEISS Professor of Economics, Bradford Centre for International DevelopmentNELSON WANAMBI Government Economist, Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development