Poverty Reduction Strategies: A Comparative Study Applied to Empirical Research (Gottinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsokonomik) - Softcover

Kircher, Philipp Albert Theodor; Albert, Philipp; Kircher, Theodor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820459623 ISBN 13: 9780820459622

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

Poverty remains one of the greatest problems of our time, causing starvation and humiliation in poor countries and contributing to problems of conflict, migration and environmental degradationeffectingalso richer countries. This study provides a systematical analysis of today's donor strategies for development cooperation, which unite around the goal fo poverty reduction. The most recent strategies of the World Bank and the German, British and swedish official development agencies are compared and evaluated. Their broad consensus on goals and coneptual elements in comprehensively presented. Differences in accentuations regarding beneficiaries and implementationmethods are highlighted. An empirical study of the povery focus in project evaluations of he German Fonancial Cooperatin rounds off the analysis by exemplarily pointing at the practical implications of the new strategies. Contents: The consensus regarding poverty reduction strategies for developing countries--Defferences in the accentuations of various donors--Empirical result on poverty focus in project evaluations of the German Financial Cooperation.

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About the Author

The Author: Philipp Kircher studied Economic Engineering in the diploma program of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and Business Administration in the masters program of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. During an internship at the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau he developed the initial ideas for this study. The thesis was evolved in cooperation with the Ibero-America Institute on Economic Research at the University of Göttingen. The author currently conducts research at the University of Bonn.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820459623
• ISBN 13: 9780820459622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275