Anmerkungen:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 2004 erstellt
Beschreibung:
Persistent poverty has plagued rural Africa for generations and, by some accounts, is becoming more widespread and entrenched. As a consequence, governments and donors have renewed and intensified their commitment to poverty reduction. This is reflected around the continent in poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs), efforts at decentralizing public goods and services delivery and the rise of participatory poverty appraisals intended to empower the poor, and a range of other policy changes. In some cases, one can legitimately wonder about the extent to which these reforms are heartfelt, rather than merely rhetorical and political, and the extent to which national and international elites are prepared to make sacrifices so as to advance an authentic poverty reduction agenda. But as one who has worked on problems of African poverty for two decades now, I feel quite comfortable asserting that there has been a palpable increase in recent years in the attention paid and sincerity surrounding questions of poverty reduction by policymakers and donors