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18-Jul-2007
How can development co-operation best contribute to promoting pro-poor growth? Decision makers can make better choices when they have evidence on the likely distributional impacts of their interventions. POVNET has developed the ex ante Poverty Impact Assessment approach to help donors and their developing country partners better assess impacts and outcomes of their policies, programmes and projects. For a short overview on the approach please see the Ex ante Poverty Impact Assessment Brief.
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15-Mar-2007
Why has growth been more successful in reducing poverty in some countries than in others? How can poor women and men best participate in, contribute to and benefit from the growth process? Why is pro-poor growth important and what can donors do to promote it? This book provides policy guidance to donors on these issues, based on recent work of the DAC. It pays special attention to the role of private sector development, agriculture and infrastructure in pro-poor growth -- areas that were neglected by many donors during the 1990s but are currently receiving renewed attention.
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24-Oct-2006
In response to its mandate, POVNET has prepared guidance to donors on promoting pro-poor growth. The policy statement is developed in the attached document. POVNET has also produced reports on promoting the contribution of private sector development, agriculture and infrastructure to pro-poor growth.
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18-Sep-2006
Richard Manning, Chair of the Development Assistance Committee, will present to an audience of high level officials, legislators and members of the research community in Washington D.C. the Policy Guidance for Donors on Promoting Pro-poor Growth recently prepared by POVNET.
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12-Jul-2006
Donors are supporting a vast range of activities that affect investment, both domestic and foreign. They spend around 20% of their aid on these. But little evaluative material is available on the impact of these interventions on investment and employment in developing countries. The objective of this Policy Guidance is to help DAC members use their ODA more effectively to mobilise private investment for development. Please see www.oecd.org/dac/investment.
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21-Apr-2006
In response to its mandate, POVNET has prepared guidance to donors on promoting pro-poor growth. The policy statement is developed in the attached document. POVNET has also produced reports on promoting the contribution of private sector development, agriculture and infrastructure to pro-poor growth.
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22-May-2003
Achieving better health for poor people requires going well beyond the health sector to take action in related areas such as education, water and sanitation. It also entails looking beyond national programmes to global policies with implications for health, such as trade..
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26-Apr-2001
Developing countries have achieved remarkable, although uneven, improvements in living standards over the past 30 years, and development co-operation has played a strong supportive role. But poverty reduction, in the context of sustainable development, remains a major challenge. Extreme poverty ravages the lives of one person in four in the developing world. Illiteracy, hunger and disease are still widespread, and HIV/AIDS has become a scourge in many developing countries. About half of the poor are children suffering from hardship, want and violence — and the majority of poor adults are women. Globalisation offers promising avenues for spurring growth and reducing poverty, but special effort will be required to ensure that poor countries and poor people share adequately in its opportunities and benefits.
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