The Context of Poverty

Aidan Cox, John Healey, Paul Hoebink and Timo Voipio
Additional contact information
Aidan Cox: UNDP
John Healey: Overseas Development Institute
Timo Voipio: IDS

Chapter 1 in European Development Cooperation and the Poor, 2000, pp 1-22 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This is a study of the aspirations, roles, actions and effectiveness of European development agencies in trying to improve the lot of the poor. Yet inevitably the main determinants of the possibilities and chances of succeeding rest with the specific partner country — the nature of its poverty, its culture, its politics and government attitudes, policies and capacities. It is appropriate therefore to begin with a brief review of the poverty situation in the seven poor or relatively poor countries which form the focus of this study. Although these seven countries are not necessarily representative of the poverty context in the developing world as a whole, they do cover three continents: India and Nepal in Asia, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe in Africa, and Bolivia in Latin America. The types of problems and opportunities posed are reasonably typical of many of the other country contexts in which the European agencies work.

Keywords: Poverty Reduction; District Council; Education Spending; Case Study Country; Drought Relief (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-98317-1_1

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780333983171

DOI: 10.1057/9780333983171_1

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().