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 other macro-economic policies for poverty reduction, human development and economic growth can be compatible with micro-level interventions to provide basic social services. Policymakers have more flexibility than is usually assumed to engage in macro-economic and growth-oriented policies that can also expand human capabilities and fulfill human rights. More than just more aid is needed. Strategic shifts in aid policy, decentralized governance, health and education and the private-public mix in service provision are a prerequisite to achieve the goals of human development and to eliminate human poverty within a generation.

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Reducing human poverty : macro-economic and social policy to achieve the millennium development goals

Santosh K. Mehrotra and Enrique Delamonica

Mehrotra, Santosh K., Delamonica, Enrique

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Zed Books; Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury UK

Zed Books Ltd

CROP international studies in poverty research, London ; New York : New York, 2007

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London, New York, England, 2006

May 29, 2007

1, 20080229

до 2011-01

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book focuses on the provision of basic social services - in particular, access to education, health and water supplies - as the central building blocks of any human development strategy. The authors concentrate on how these basic social services can be financed and delivered more effectively to achieve the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals. Their analysis, which departs from the dominant macro-economic paradigm, deploys the results of broad-ranging research they led at UNICEF and UNDP, investigating the record on basic social services of some 30 developing countries. In seeking to learn from these new data, they develop an analytical argument around two potential synergies: at the macro level, between poverty reduction, human development and economic growth, and at the micro level, between interventions to provide basic social services. Policymakers, they argue, can integrate macro-economic and social policy. Fiscal, monetary, and other macro-economic policies can be compatible with social sector requirements. They make the case that policymakers have more flexibility than is usually presented by orthodox writers and international financial institutions, and that if policymakers engaged in alternative macro-economic and growth-oriented policies, this could lead to the expansion of human capabilities and the fulfillment of human rights. This book explores some of these policy options. The book also argues that more than just additional aid is needed. Specific strategic shifts in the areas of aid policy, decentralized governance, health and education policy and the private-public mix in service provision are a prerequisite to achieve the goals of human development. The combination of governance reforms and fiscal and macro-economic policies outlined in this book can eliminate human poverty in the span of a generation.

This Book Presents The Results Of Broad-ranging Analysis Led By Two Policy Experts At Unicef And Undp. It Investigates The Record On Basic Social Services Of Some Thirty Developing Countries. In Seeking To Learn From The Data, The Book Develops An Argument Around Two Potential Synergies: At The Macro-level, Between Poverty Reduction, Human Development And Economic Growth; And At The Micro-level, Between Interventions To Provide Basic Social Services. The Book Explores Policy Options That Could Enable Policymakers To Have More Flexibility To Engage In Growth-oriented, Distributive Macro-economic Policies And The Provision Of Social Services That Could Lead To The Expansion Of Human Capabilities. 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. Santosh Mehrotra And Enrique Delamonica. International Social Science Council. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [369]-425) And Index.

2011-06-04