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Negotiating Poverty: New Directions, Renewed Debate »

Authors: Neil Middleton, Rob Visser, Phil O'Keefe
ISBN-13: 9780745318226, ISBN-10: 0745318223
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date Published: October 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Neil Middleton

Neil Middleton has written widely on development and aid and is a consultant with ETC-UK. He is the co-author, with Phil O’Keefe, of Redefining Sustainable Development and Disaster and Development: the Politics of Humanitarian Aid, both published by Pluto Press. Phil O’Keefe teaches Economic Development and Environmental Management at the University of Northumbria. He is also the Director of ETC-UK. Rob Visser is Deputy Director of the Department of Social Policy of the Ministry of Foreign affairs of the Netherlands. He also lectures on Environment & Security in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utrecht.

Book Synopsis

'Deserves wide reading.' Development Policy Review. Contributors in this edited volume are leading figures in the field of development drawn from different continents.

	Abbreviations	vii
1.	Introduction	1
2.	The Agenda	19
3.	Thinking in the Active Voice: Macropolicy and the Individual	26
4.	Poverty Concepts, Policies, Partnerships and Practice: a Plea for Simplicity	41
5.	Pro-Poor Growth: a Review of Three Issues Informing the Current Policy Agenda	54
6.	Common Diagnostic Framework for Poverty Reduction	74
7.	Private Adjustments: Household Responses to the Erosion of Work	89
8.	Comments on Human Security and the Poverty Reduction Guidelines	135
9.	Environmental Security, Livelihoods and Entitlements	148
10.	Can Poverty Be Made a Crime Against Humanity?	162
11.	Other Voices	174
12.	Reasonable Discussion	193
13.	Conclusions	221
	Index	233