Development Strategies for Poverty Alleviation

Shahid Javed Burki

Asian Development Review (ADR), 1990, vol. 08, issue 01, 1-17

Abstract: Whereas in the 1970s, there may have been grounds for cautious optimism with respect to poverty alleviation, welfare and redistributive policies were severely battered by macroeconomic conditions in the first half of the 1980s. In many, perhaps the majority of less-developed countries, modest gains in improving income distribution or containing poverty slipped away, and there is little evidence that the ground has been retrieved over the past four years…

Date: 1990
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