Poverty alleviation is typically addressed in financial programming through additive programs that target vulnerable groups but without modifying the underlying stabilization and adjustment targets. Instead, this paper integrates the poverty alleviation objective into the financial programming...

This paper examines how poverty alleviation can be incorporated as a policy objective in developing country macroeconomic models, analogous to the unemployment objective in industrial country applications. Three elements are involved: selection of the appropriate poverty measure, establishment...

Why assess the value of the innovation systems perspective? -- The innovation systems concept: a framework for analysis -- Research methodology and case study descriptions -- Innovation system capacity: a comparative analysis of case studies -- Reviewing the innovation systems concept in light...