Title: Attacking rural poverty : strategy and public actions
Abstract: Poverty remains pervasive, and its incidence and intensity are usually higher in rural than in urban areas. The international community recognizes that reducing world poverty is one of the major development challenges of our time. Many believe that poverty is a threat to global security. There is no blueprint for overcoming poverty. Every developing country needs to prepare a mix of policies and take public actions based on its economic, sociopolitical, and structural context, and those policies should be targeted to address the different forms of deprivation that face the rural poor. The exit strategies for escaping poverty should also be included in a menu of policy choices that individual countries should undertake, consistent with their resources and institutional capabilities. They also need to establish a systematic monitoring process to assess the progress they may or may not make toward reducing rural poverty.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-12-31
Language: en
Type: article
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