The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has long addressed ways to reduce poverty in its operations and has now established poverty reduction as its overarching objective. The intensified focus on poverty reduction needs to be addressed in conjunction with questions in development that remain on the...

Making PRSPs work : can rhetoric and reality coincide? / Alan Whaites -- All for naught? : an analysis of Senegal's PRSP process / Wendy Phillips -- Working towards an Ethiopian PRSP / Joe Muwonge, Beyene Geleta and Simon Heliso -- Process before strategy : planning a less than ideal PRSP for...

Part I. Conceptual and Historical Perspectives of Decentralization and Local Governance -- Chapter 1. From Deconcentration to Devolution: Tracking the Historical Trajectory of Democratic Decentralization in Ghana -- Chapter 2. Historical Perspectives of Local Governance and Community Development...

Market transitions and the poor: new coalitions for economic reform? -- From emergency employment to social investment: politics, adjustment, and poverty in Chile -- The politics of protecting the poor during adjustment: Bolivia's emergency social fund -- The politics of reform without a safety...