Towards Genuine Universalism within Contemporary Development Policy
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
The Millennium Development Goals: a cross-sectoral analysis and principles for goal setting after 2015
Global Poverty and the New Bottom Billion: What if Three-quarters of the World's Poor Live in Middle-income Countries?
Where Do The Poor Live
Poor countries or poor people? development assistance and the new geography of global poverty
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Determinants of Health and Education Outcomes Background Note for World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People
World Development Report 2004 : making services work for poor people
Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Poverty Comparisons: A Guide to Concepts and Methods
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Q2. What are the future works mentioned in the paper "Towards genuine universalism within contemporary development policy" ?
These are political challenges given that they can not be resolved through technocratic solutions, but require choices to be made about the types of societies the authors wish to inhabit and how they wish to treat each other within and across these societies.
Q3. What is the Achilles heel of the income poverty approach?
the fundamental Achilles heel of the income poverty approach is that education and health costs are mostly not included in the calculation of poverty lines.
Q4. What is the main reason why the MDGs are not a part of the Washington Cons?
More specifically, the emphasis in the MDGs on absolute measures and the implicit bias towards targeting predisposes the MDG agenda to be coopted by an orthodox approach to development policy.
Q5. What is the propensity of supply-side approaches to co-opt?
The recent turn towards conditional cash transfers, wellbeing approaches, and even rights-based approaches also carry this propensity to be co-opted by supply-side approaches.
Q6. How do they show that the average household in Asia has increased in poverty?
Merely by deducting catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for healthcare from the expenditures of households surveyed in 11 low- and middleincome countries in Asia (most surveys taken around 2000), they show that poverty rates across Asia increased from 19.3 per cent to 22 per cent, or an increase of 78 million people.
Q7. What is the guiding dictum for the next incarnation of the MDGs?
perhaps the guiding dictum for the next incarnation of the MDGs should not be ‘Make Poverty History (Part Two)’ but rather, ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’.
Q8. Why are the MDGs rooted in the fact that they are often framed in se?
They are rooted in the fact that policy choices are very political, even though these choices are often couched in seductively technocratic terms.
Q9. How did they estimate poverty rates in the 1990s?
By varying the poverty line parameters within reasonable boundaries, they estimated poverty rates as lying anywhere from 12.7 per cent to 65.8 per cent of the total population.
Q10. What is the main argument for the recent literature on the impact of aid on growth?
The recent literature on the impact of aid on growth offers little useful insight given that it largely ignores the major global structural processes that condition the impact of aid flows, such as those reflected by global balance of payments asymmetries.
Q11. What is the main argument of Dunleavy et al. (2006)?
as argued by Dunleavy et al. (2006), even in rich countries with well-developed administrative capacities, the policy complexity introduced by such approaches generally led to a reduction in citizen competence and the tide has since turned in ‘leading-edge’ countries.
Q12. What is the role of aid in the balance of payments of South Korea?
In an earlier developmental epoch, aid was understood as enabling poor countries to cover such trade deficits, as best represented by the crucial role of aid in the balance of payments of South Korea well into the 1970s.