Poverty Reduction: What Role for the State in Today's Globalized Economy? FROM THE PUBLISHER
Poverty and social exclusion have moved up the international policy agenda, in step with the increasingly obvious failure of development to reduce mass poverty and the rowing gulf of inequality which latter-day capitalism has created. Looking at the issues involved, and specific investigations in particular countries-mainly in Southern and Central Africa-the contributors to Poverty Reduction explore difficult questions about how much can be expected from the state to reduce poverty. They acknowledge that the "trickle down" and "natural" processes do not provide a remedy. They provide a rich stream of up-to-date information on the incidence and forms of poverty in Southern and Central Africa, and the great variety of government strategies and programs that attempt to tackle the issue.
Author Biography: Francis Wilson is Director of the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town.
Author Biography: Nazneen Kanji is based at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the Department of Social Policy.
Author Biography: Einar Braathen is based at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research.
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Focusing primarily on countries in Southern and Central Africa, local and international scholars consider how much can be expected of the state in poverty reduction. The 16 contributions discuss such topics as democracies and poverty, Botswana's social assistance scheme, poverty reduction policies in Zimbabwe, the role of foreign aid, the South African Women's Budget Initiative, and trade policy, poverty, and inequality in Namibia. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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