Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction? Drawing on cutting edge research, expert … the world is appraised, and specially commissioned research focuses on the political economy process and the outcomes of …

and Mathias Herr -- Current international development tools to combat poverty / Warner Woodworth -- Opportunities for …This unique book provides an overview of the need to alleviate poverty and what methods have been used in the past to … be used in poverty alleviation. Different models of microfranchising are reviewed and specific case studies highlighted …

sustainable development and poverty reduction within the context of global development … services approach. : income, inequality and poverty / Kerry Turner and Brendan Fisher -- 3. Ecospace, humanspace and climate … to climate conflict : who is taking the heat for global warming? / Betsy Hartmann -- 10. Rural poverty, cotton production …

and Poverty, Chapter 1, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 23-51 -- Ravi Kanbur (2001), 'Economic … Policy, Distribution and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements', World Development, 29 (6), 1083-94 -- François Bourguignon … Growth, 7, 195-225 -- Martin Ravallion (2001), 'Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Looking Beyond Averages', World Development …

economic diplomacy, illustrating that some instruments, such as sanctions (both positive and negative), increase trade … bilateral economic diplomacy are explored, and economic sanctions analysed. An extensive review of the literature and empirical … investigations of 161 sanctions and the commercial relationships of 37 countries provide topical and empirical perspectives on how …

Economic Sanctions highlights the leading legal scholarship of the past 12 years on the theory and practice of … international economic sanctions. Michael P. Malloy, an internationally recognized specialist in the subject, discusses current … challenges concerning the use of sanctions as tools of anti-terrorism policy and human rights enforcement as well as the …

1. Experiences with poverty targeting in Asia : an overview / John Weiss -- 2. Poverty targeting in India / Pradeep … Srivastava -- 3. Poverty targeting in Indonesia / Ari A. Perdana and John Maxwell -- 4. Poverty targeting in the People …'s Republic of China / Wang Sangui -- 5. Poverty targeting in Thailand / Peter Warr and Isra Sarntisart -- 6. Poverty targeting in …

It is widely recognized that while high and sustained economic growth is critical for poverty reduction, there are … other policy interventions that may also be significant in a "growth plus" approach to poverty reduction. This volume brings … together a series of case studies on the poverty impact of alternative interventions in a broad range of Asian economies. The …