Poverty is one of the most depressing global problems in the
world today. Therefore, there is a growing consensus among development
organisations that poverty alleviation should be the primary goal of
cooperation between the rich and the poor countries. This consensus is
due to the awareness that a widening international income gap threatens
the well-being of people in the rich countries. In this volume, the
author, Philip Kircher, offers a comprehensive study on the evolution,
the content, the different national accentuations, and the problem of
the international consensus on poverty alleviation, and provides a
systematic analysis of today’s donor strategies for development
cooperation for poverty reduction. The study focuses specifically on the
strategic positions of the World Bank, the Department for International
Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom, the Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany, and the Swedish
International Development Agency (SIDA), as well as the positions
presented by the governments of these countries in regard to
development.
Pro-poor health policies in poverty reduction strategies