Title:
How politics ticks ... : debating politics and poverty
Authors:
Lammers, E.
Year:
2007
Serial number:
4
Journal:
The Broker
Pages:
13
-
15
ISSN:
1874-2033
Language:
eng
Subject:
Development Cooperation General
Keywords:
development policy
,
poverty
Abstract:
In 2007, the Effectiveness and Quality Department (DEK) of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a collection of essays on aid effectiveness. The contributors agree that pro-poor policies affect the interests of many groups, not only the poor, and are essentially political. By failing to address the root causes of poverty, the technocratic approaches of many donors are unlikely to succeed. The crux of the matter may be the grave misconception that no one loses from pro-poor policies. The challenge is to translate the academic insights and the knowledge gained through decades of development practice into a framework that does not limit itself to only one aspect, but that takes into account the politics of poverty as they are manifest at the individual, societal, national and global levels.
Organization:
The Broker
Category:
Policy
Right:
© 2007 IDP. This article has been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license.
Document type:
E-article
File:
137909.pdf