Eliminating Human Poverty Macroeconomic and Social Policies for Equitable Growth

by Mehrotra, Santosh K.; Delamonica, Enrique

• ISBN13: 9781842777725
• ISBN10: 1842777726
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-15
• Publisher: Zed Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Santosh K. Mehrotra is Senior Advisor, Planning Commission, Government of India.
Enrique Delamonica is a policy analyst in the Division of Policy and Planning, UNICEF

Table of Contents

Introduction

Basic services in a larger context: the failure of the Washington Consensus, the weakness of its neo-classical foundation, and introduction to an alternative framework * The (in)adequacy of public spending on basic social services

The distribution of benefits of health and education spending

Policies to Enhance Efficiency in 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

Mobilising Additional Resources for Public Social Services

The Rhetoric of International Development Targets and the Reality of Official Development Assistance

Conclusion

Introduction

Basic services in a larger context: the failure of the Washington Consensus, the weakness of its neo-classical foundation, and introduction to an alternative framework

The (in)adequacy of public spending on basic social services

The distribution of benefits of health and education spending

Policies to Enhance Efficiency in 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

Mobilising Additional Resources for Public Social Services

The Rhetoric of International Development Targets and the Reality of Official Development Assistance

Conclusion

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