What is Poverty Reduction

摘要: There is a healthy debate about how to achieve poverty reduction in developing countries, but not enough discussion of what we mean by "poverty reduction." "Poverty reduction" often used as short-hand for promoting economic growth that will permanently lift many people possible over line. But there are different objectives consistent with reduction," and have make choices between them. trade-offs tackling current future poverty, helping poor focusing on those chronic measures tackle the causes which deal symptoms. Because donors focus just one dimension (growth) they marginalise other legitimate such reducing or providing social services countries cannot otherwise afford donor agencies do recognize these explicitly, important negative consequences choice management individual aid programmes, donors' ability transparent evidence-based decisions composition their portfolio. Aid could be more effective if were greater recognition dimensions this was recognized incentives agencies. an ethical case global system justice provides long-term, redistributional transfers resources world's poor, enable them lead better lives while country developing, even no expectation accelerate development. Reasonable can disagree whether desirable existing hegemonic definition does sufficiently acknowledge goal permit meaningful discourse it might achieved.