Since the inception of the HIPC Initiative, the story of the design and implementation of poverty alleviation strategies has largely been told through the filters of development partners and the Bretton Woods Institutions. Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action examines the efforts in Ghana to reduce poverty and initiate changes that it believes are essential to ensure a prosperous future for its citizens in the 21st century. It chronicles the achievements, pitfalls, and looming challenges of a government, its people, and its external partners in fashioning out and implementing anti-poverty and pro-growth policies. This edited volume, by a group of independent researchers, examines Ghana's experience: what was done, how it was done, what was left undone, the lessons learned, and fills the void in the development literature.

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Joe Amoako-Tuffour, Bartholomew K. Armah

Joe Amoako-Tuffour; Bartholemew Armah

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group

United States, United States of America

Lanham, Maryland, December 28, 2007

Plymouth, 2008

PS, 2007

1, 2007

1, 2008

до 2011-08

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents......Page 7
List of Tables......Page 11
List of Figures......Page 13
List of Boxes......Page 15
Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 17
Preface......Page 21
Acknowledgments......Page 23
1 Introduction: Poverty Reduction in Ghana......Page 25
PART 1: Poverty, Inequality, and Reform Approaches......Page 39
2 The Evolution of Poverty in Ghana: 1960-2000......Page 41
3 The North-South Divide and th e Disappearing Middle Class: An Analysis of Spatial Inequality and Polarization in Ghana......Page 73
4 From SAPs to PRSPs: A Tale of Two Paradigms or Simply a Tale?......Page 97
PART 2: Designing, Implementing, Financing, and Monitoring the GPRS......Page 117
5 Public Consultations, Bureaucrats and Development Partners in Ghana's Poverty Reduction Strategy......Page 119
6 Linking Poverty Reduction Strategies to the Budget......Page 143
7 Towards an Architecture for the Delivery of International Development Assistance: The case of the GPRS......Page 163
8 Monitoring Poverty Reduction Strategies......Page 187
PART 3: Special Topics in Poverty Reduction......Page 205
9 Decentralization, Poverty Reduction, and the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy......Page 207
10 Tackling Child Poverty in Ghana......Page 229
11 Employment Generation for Poverty Alleviation......Page 247
12 Informal Sector Activities and Urban Poverty in Ghana: Patterns and Poverty Policy Options......Page 267
13 Achieving Gender Equity in Ghana: How Useful is the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy?......Page 295
14 Environmental Sustainability and Poverty Reduction in Ghana......Page 319
PART 4: Lessons and the Way Forward......Page 337
15 Conclusions and Policy Lessons: The Next Generation of Poverty Reduction Strategies......Page 339
Appendix: Ghana's Progress towards Achieving the MDGs (2004)......Page 355
Index......Page 357
About the Contributors......Page 365

"Since the inception of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, the story of the design and implementation of poverty alleviation strategies has largely been told through the filters of development partners and the Bretton Woods Institutions. Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action examines the efforts in Ghana to reduce poverty and initiate changes that the country believes are essential to ensure a prosperous future for its citizens in the twenty-first century. It chronicles the achievements, pitfalls, and looming challenges of a government, its people, and its external partners in fashioning out and implementing antipoverty and pro-growth policies. This edited volume by a group of independent researchers examines Ghana's experience: what was done, how it was done, what was left undone, the lessons learned, and in doing so fills the void in the development literature."--Jacket.

Examines the efforts of Ghana to reduce poverty and initiate changes that it believes are essential to ensure a prosperous future for its citizens in the 21st century. This work chronicles the achievements, pitfalls, and looming challenges of a government

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