Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Development Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction

      • Yusuf Bangura

      Pages 3-29

   3. Employment, Economic Development, and Poverty Reduction

      • James Heintz

      Pages 30-54

   4. Taxation, Developmental State Capacity and Poverty Reduction

      • Jonathan Di John

      Pages 55-73

   5. The Effectiveness of IMF/World Bank-Funded Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

      • Ricardo Gottschalk

      Pages 74-97

   6. Poverty Reduction and the Politics of Bilateral Donor Assistance

      • Tom Lavers

      Pages 98-121

   7. Politics of Growth and Redistribution in a Democratic Context

      • Yusuf Bangura

      Pages 122-148

   8. Agrarian Social Pacts and Poverty Reduction

      • Adam Sheingate

      Pages 149-171

3. Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Economic Development and Poverty Reduction in Korea: Governing Multifunctional Institutions

      • Huck-ju Kwon, Ilcheong Yi

      Pages 175-200

   3. Singapore: Growing Wealth, Poverty Avoidance and Management

      • Chua Beng Huat

      Pages 201-229

   4. Development Strategies and Poverty Reduction in China

      • Jean C. Oi

      Pages 230-256

   5. The Unsocial Leviathan: Interests, Institutions and Social Policy in Brazil

      • Marcus André Melo

      Pages 257-280

   6. Ireland’s Boom-Bust Cycles: The Elusive Search for a Balanced Development

      • Peadar Kirby

      Pages 281-306

4. Back Matter

   Pages 307-316

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This book looks at developmental pathways to poverty reduction that emphasize employment-centred structural change, social policies that both protect citizens and contribute to economic development, and types of politics that support economic transformation and participation of the poor in growth processes.

• development
• Economic Development
• growth
• poverty
• structural change
• taxation
• development aid

• University of Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone

  Yusuf Bangura

• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Switzerland

  Yusuf Bangura

Yusuf Bangura Chua Beng Huat Jonathan Di John Ricardo Gottschalk James Heintz Huck-ju Kwon Peadar Kirby Tom Lavers Marcus André Melo Jean C. Oi Adam Sheingate Ilcheong Yi

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