Title: Economics and Poverty - the links. An education and training resource.
Abstract: As part of its role as a national community
development centre, the Combat Poverty Agency
provides information, advice, training and resource
materials for the community and voluntary sector.
Under the current Strategic Plan 2005-07 Combat
Poverty initiated the Having Your Say Programme
www.combatpoverty.ie/havingyoursay that aims
to strengthen the policy voices and practices of
communities experiencing poverty. One of the four
Programme objectives is to:
• Initiate and support work that enables people
experiencing poverty, their representatives or
organisations that support them to engage in the
policy system.
Economics and Poverty - the links was
commissioned, by Combat Poverty, Irish National
Organisation of the Unemployed and the National
Women’s Council, under this objective.
The overall aim of the title is, in an Irish context,
to increase the understanding and policy analysis
capacity of anti-poverty community and voluntary
organizations on the relationship between poverty
and economics. Its objectives are:
• to increase knowledge and understanding
of the relationship between policy or social
objectives and economic activity
• to increase knowledge and understanding of
fundamental economic concepts
• to increase knowledge and understanding of
the role of government and market systems in
the allocation of resources
• to increase knowledge and understanding
of economic policy instruments relevant to
poverty
• to enhance skills and capacities to critique and
analyse economic and fiscal policies as they
apply to the allocation of income, wealth and
resources
• to enhance skills and capacities to critique and
analyse economic and fiscal policies as they
relate to the redistribution of income, wealth
and resources.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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