دانلود کتاب Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action: Perspectives and Lessons from Ghana

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Contents......Page 7
List of Tables......Page 11
List of Figures......Page 13
List of Boxes......Page 15
Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 17
Preface......Page 21
Acknowledgments......Page 23
1 Introduction: Poverty Reduction in Ghana......Page 25
PART 1: Poverty, Inequality, and Reform Approaches......Page 39
2 The Evolution of Poverty in Ghana: 1960-2000......Page 41
3 The North-South Divide and th e Disappearing Middle Class: An Analysis of Spatial Inequality and Polarization in Ghana......Page 73
4 From SAPs to PRSPs: A Tale of Two Paradigms or Simply a Tale?......Page 97
PART 2: Designing, Implementing, Financing, and Monitoring the GPRS......Page 117
5 Public Consultations, Bureaucrats and Development Partners in Ghana's Poverty Reduction Strategy......Page 119
6 Linking Poverty Reduction Strategies to the Budget......Page 143
7 Towards an Architecture for the Delivery of International Development Assistance: The case of the GPRS......Page 163
8 Monitoring Poverty Reduction Strategies......Page 187
PART 3: Special Topics in Poverty Reduction......Page 205
9 Decentralization, Poverty Reduction, and the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy......Page 207
10 Tackling Child Poverty in Ghana......Page 229
11 Employment Generation for Poverty Alleviation......Page 247
12 Informal Sector Activities and Urban Poverty in Ghana: Patterns and Poverty Policy Options......Page 267
13 Achieving Gender Equity in Ghana: How Useful is the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy?......Page 295
14 Environmental Sustainability and Poverty Reduction in Ghana......Page 319
PART 4: Lessons and the Way Forward......Page 337
15 Conclusions and Policy Lessons: The Next Generation of Poverty Reduction Strategies......Page 339
Appendix: Ghana's Progress towards Achieving the MDGs (2004)......Page 355
Index......Page 357
About the Contributors......Page 365