Eliminating human poverty : macroeconomic and social policies for equitable growth /
This examination of how basic social services, particularly education, health and water, can be financed and delivered more effectively departs from the dominant macro-economic paradigm. Drawing on their own broad-ranging research at UNICEF and UNDP, the authors argue that fiscal, monetary, and othe...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York : New York :
Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Series: | CROP international studies in poverty research
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Table of Contents:
- Integrating macroeconomic and social policies to trigger synergies
- Macroeconomic policies and institutions for pro-poor growth
- The (in)adequacy of public spending on basic social services
- The distribution of benefits of health and education spending
- Policies to enhance efficiency and improve delivery in the public provision of basic social services
- Governance reforms to address the systemic problems of state provision of basic services
- Promoting complementarity between public and private provision
- Taxation and mobilization of additional resources for public social services
- The consistency between aid and trade policies and the millennium goals.