IDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Millennium Development Goals, New International Economic Order, Simon Kuznets
25 Dec 2012
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Chapter 13-poverty and exclusion: from basic needs to the millennium development goals. Current ideas about poverty and the gap between the rich and poor have been shaped in the context of a. Paul streen"s four practical reasons for pursuing poverty reduction objectives: Poverty reduction can be a means of achieving higher productivity by contributing to a well nourished, healthy, educated, skilled and alert labour force. Can contribute to a healthy civil society, democracy and greater social stability in the lr. The international aid regime and poverty reduction: a brief history. Post wwii, western states agreed to channel small proportions of their public expenditures into foreign aid for development countries, as oda. Popular belief was that economic growth would led to drop in poverty. A new aid paradigm emerged in which: All societies could modernize and grow economically in a sequence of historically verified stages that had occurred in western nations over the previous two centuries.
