Poverty Reduction and Beyond Development Strategies for Low-Income Countries [Paperback]

This book highlights strategies for poverty reduction in developing countries,?with emphasis?on the power of the market mechanism and vigor of the private sector, focusing ODA on a few longer term challenges and leveraging advances in technology to the fullest, and?underlining the importance of human rights and security.Preface Poverty Reduction and Beyond: How Far toward the Goals?; T.Yamagata ?& T.Shiraishi PART I: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Free Markets and Economic Development; W.Easterly Reducing Poverty through Innovation; S.Yusuf PART II: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES Industrialization cum Poverty Reduction: The Cases of Bangladesh and Cambodia; T.Yamagata The Pledge to End Poverty: The Image and the Reality of International Aid for Health and Population; S.Mahmud What Is Happening in 'Poor' Africa?; K.Hirano Poverty Reduction and Human Security: The Experience from JICA's Foreign Aid; H.Kato ?& M.Kiyoka Panel DiscussionWILLIAM EASTERLY is Professor of Economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU's Development Research Institute. He is also a non-resident Fellow of the Center for Global Development and the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, USA KATSUMI HIRANO is the Director-General, Area Studies Center, the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO). After completing Master Degree at Waseda University, Japan, he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Special Assistant at the Embassy of Japan in Zimbabwe, Sasakawa Peace Foundation as Program Officer, and joined IDE in 1991 HIROSHI KATO is Deputy Director, JICA Research Institute. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1978 (B. L.). He earned a master's degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, in 1988 MASANOBU KIYOKA is Senior Advisor in rural development and development administration, JICA, Japan. He graduated from Waseda University in 1978 (B.A. in economics) SIMEEN MAHMUD is a Research Director, Bal“I