ABSTRACT
The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap. This must be done country by country, on the initiative of each country’s government: with the maximum involvement of its own civil society, and with the rich world also making a contribution. To add momentum, the international community needs to adopt targets far more specific than the fifty percent extreme ‘poverty reduction’ of the first Millennium Development Goal.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |52 pages
Case for a safety-net
chapter |6 pages
Three sages and two new messages
chapter |12 pages
The basic case
chapter |26 pages
Size of the extreme-poverty gap
part |78 pages
Ways and means
chapter |10 pages
Targeting the poor and fixing rates
chapter |4 pages
Difficulties and obstacles
chapter |8 pages
Financing social safety-nets
chapter |6 pages
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs)
chapter |12 pages
Employment guarantees
chapter |15 pages
Paying for health care
part |40 pages
Another window
chapter |38 pages
The NGOs and microc redit in Bangladesh
part |9 pages
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