Development Planning and Poverty Reduction

P.B. ANAND Environmental Economist STEPHEN L. ATKINS Technical Assistant on a European Union funded poverty reduction and agricultural diversification programme, Jamaica RICHARD BOMD Freelance Development Consultant and Honorary Research Fellow, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK PAUL FRANCIS Senior Lecturer, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK CAROLINE HARPER Director of Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, London, UK HOSSEIN JALILAN Senior Lecturer, Bradford Centre for International Development, UK ELIO LONDERO Principal Economist, Inter-American Development Bank ROSEMARY MCGEE Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex ,UK MICHAEL TRIBE Honarary Research Post, Bradford Centre for International Development, University of Bradford, UK ANTHONY TSEKPO Economist, Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana EMMANUEL TUMUSIIME-MUTEBILE Governor of the Bank of Uganda JOHN WEISS Professor of Economics, Bradford Centre for International Development NELSON WANAMBI Government Economist, Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development

The stated aim of much development assistance is the reduction of poverty. Part One provides an overview of planning for poverty reduction, and evidence on the extent and causes of poverty. Part Two examines participatory approaches to development planning. Part Three assesses macro-economic strategies and programmes for poverty reduction.The stated aim of much development assistance is the reduction of poverty. This book examines how development interventions might be more effectively targeted to achieve this aim. Part One provides an overview of planning for poverty reduction, and evidence on the extent and causes of poverty. Part Two examines participatory approaches to development planning. Part Three assesses macro-economic strategies and programmes for poverty reduction. Part Four concludes with a microeconomic analysis of the distribution of benefits from investment projects.