"The
progress which has been made over the last few decades in
reducing the proportion of people living in poverty has been
largely the result of economic
growth: raising incomes generally, including those of poor
people… Economic growth is an indispensable requirement
for poverty reduction".
However,
as DFID's White Paper continues, economic growth by itself
is not enough. Pro poor development requires growth and equity.
Managed badly, economic growth can lead to further marginalisation
and impoverishment.
The
outcome largely depends on the policy choices adopted by governments,
international institutions, the private sector and civil society.
This
set of papers explores the links between the broader economic
processes, the extent of pro-poor engagement and the micro
reality.
The LADDER project takes a historical perspective
to investigate how macro-economic reforms have affected livelihoods
in southern Africa
Macroeconomic Policies and Rural Livelihood Diversification:
An Ugandan Case-study (Arsene M. Balihuta / Kunal Sen/ LADDER
Working Paper No.3 / 2001) (PDF)
Ladder, in this paper, explore economic reforms initiated in
1987 in Uganda - (judged to be) one of the most ambitious programs
of economic liberalization in the African continent.
Economic
Reforms and Rural Livelihood Diversification in Tanzania
(Kunal Sen / LADDER Working Paper No.12 / 2002) (PDF)
This paper examines the impact of the economic reform programme
initiated in Tanzania since 1986 on rural livelihoods. It looks
particularly at the impact on scope for livelihood diversification.
Economic
Reforms and Rural Livelihoods in Malawi (Kunal Sen / Archanjel
Chinkunda / LADDER Working Paper No.20 /2002 ) (PDF)
This study examines whether the development reforms in Malawi
in the 1980s have had the desired effect of providing a supportive
environment for smallholder farmers to follow livelihood strategies
that would enable them to move out of poverty.
Experience of Agricultural Market Liberalisation and Implications
for Producers (Brian Cooksey / LADDER Working Paper No.16
/ 2002) (PDF)
This paper offers a critical interpretation of the dominant
policy of liberalisation of Tanzanian agriculture over the last
decade and a half. It explores the liberalisation of export
crops, staple crops and examines the role played by donor assistance
to agriculture.
More
Than Income: Pro-Poor Livestock Development Policy in Uganda
(Steve Ashley / William Nanyeenya / LADDER Working Paper No.8
/ 2002) (PDF)
This
LADDER paper asks how livestock and the livestock sub-sector
can best contribute to the overall goal of poverty reduction
in Uganda. It argues that in focusing on production and livestock
income, current policy approaches pay insufficient attention
to the wider roles of livestock in contributing to rural livelihoods,
and thereby miss opportunities to enhance its contribution
to poverty reduction.
The
Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa consider propoor
growth in that region
The Rural Poor, the Private Sector and Markets: Changing
Interactions in Southern Africa (SLSA Team / IDS/ 2003)
(PDF)
This paper examines the strategies for development in southern
Africa which have sought to boost access by the rural poor to
new markets and investment opportunities.
The
Livelihood Options project explores the role of government and
the private sector with an underlying aim of pro-poor growth
Rural
Non-farm Employment: an Analysis of Rural Urban Interdependencies
(Amitabh Kundu / Niranjan Sarangi / Bal Paritosh Dash/ ODI/
Working Paper No.196/ 2003) (PDF)
This study in India examines the proposition that rural poverty
has declined substantially during the later half of the 1990s,
as suggested by data on consumption expenditure.
The
'Improving Policy-Livelihood Relations in South Asia' takes
a broad look at pro-poor growth
Sustainable
Livelihoods and their Linkages with Macro-Policies (Mohan
Munasinghe) (PDF)
The major focus of this paper is to review to what extent growth-inducing
macro-policies are linked to environmental or social harm, analyse
the mechanisms underlying such interactions and draw appropriate
policy conclusions focusing mainly on the developing world.
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