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Out of Poverty. Comparative Poverty Reduction Strategies in Eastern and Southern Africa
Reviews the poverty strategies of three Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC), Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, and three non-HIPCs, Botswana, Kenya and Namibia. Considers the main economic, social and political factors influencing poverty generation and/or reduction during the period 1990-2006.
Translating Growth into Poverty Reduction
Tanzania is a politically stable, much aided country that has consistently grown economically during the first decade of the millennium, while also improving its human development indicators. However, poverty has remained persistent, particularly within rural areas. This collaborative work delves into the reasons why this is so and what can be done to improve the record. The book is the product of both Tanzanian and international poverty experts, based on largely qualitative research undertaken within Tanzania by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC). The authors highlight and discuss the importance of macro- and micro-level causes of the persistence of poverty. The latter, on which the...
Reforming the United Nations [electronic resource]
The United Nations is in need of reform. There has always been widespread agreement that this is the case - indeed throughout the 60-year history of the Organization. Differences over the best cure reflect the political confrontation between its 191 member states. The institution has been criticized to lack legitimacy, to need accountability and to be inefficient with a bloated bureaucracy. Recently, allegations of mismanagement and corruption in the Oil-for-Food Program have led to a crisis of confidence. The public debate followed reform initiatives for enlarging the Security Council, achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and establishing new collective mechanisms to protect human ri...
HIV/AIDS Financing and Spending in Eastern and Southern Africa
Substantial financial and human resources from donors, governments, civil society organisations and the private sector have been committed to fighting HIV/AIDS since it was first discovered in Africa. As more resources are allocated, there is a growing need for countries to properly account for these funds. HIV/AIDS Financing and Spending in Eastern and Southern Africa measures the financial response to the pandemic in five selected countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania/Zanzibar and Zambia). This study: Analyses the national budgets of these countries from an HIV/AIDS perspective; Investigates and evaluates how the HIV/AIDS resources are disbursed, for what activities and for whose benefit; Makes recommendations to state and non-state actors on effective and efficient HV/AIDS financing and spending. This publication emerges out of an extensive multi-country resource tracking project conducted by the AIDS Budget Unit of the Governance and AIDS Programme of the Africa-wide democracy institute, Idasa.
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UN Millennium Development Library: Overview
This Overview is an invaluable summary of the capstone volume Investing in Development, which brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project, commissioned by UN Director-General Kofi Annan and directed by Jeffrey D. Sachs, one of world?s leading economists. The Overview provides a user friendly introduction to the main volume, which is the official action plan for ending poverty, providing practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them and an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the MDGs within ten years.
UN Millennium Development Library: Investing in Development
The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practica...
The Executive Guide to Implementing Quality Systems
Presenting an unusual and unique system for Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), this new book is geared for executives who want or need to support quality improvement in their organizations. It is the contributions made by CEO's and upper management that moves the quality process forward, and because of this structure, The Executive Guide to Implementing Quality focuses on the concepts, thinking, and systems necessary for management to operationalize the CQI philosophy. Because quality is not a management problem but rather a problem that involves and requires all people working together at all levels to participate and cooperate, management must engage the organization in the processes th...
Annual Review of United Nations Affairs
Contains the proceedings of the 1st- Institute for Annual Review of United Nations Affairs, New York University, 1949-
