Attacking Poverty-a strategic dilemma for the World Bank

Attacking Poverty-a strategic dilemma for the World Bank

Attacking Poverty has attracted more than the usual interest in World Development Reports mainly because it reflects the dilemma in future strategy for the World Bank. Its basis in a widely welcomed consultation with the poor, its transparent process and new conceptual framework contrast with limite...

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Published in:Journal of international development 2001-04, Vol.13 (3), p.293-298
Main Author: Hubbard, Michael
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Antipoverty Programs
Central banks
Development policy
Development Strategies
Economic development
Economic policy
Empowerment
Equality
Foreign aid
International
International Economic Organizations
International security
Poor
Poverty
Poverty alleviation
Studies
World Bank
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Summary:Attacking Poverty has attracted more than the usual interest in World Development Reports mainly because it reflects the dilemma in future strategy for the World Bank. Its basis in a widely welcomed consultation with the poor, its transparent process and new conceptual framework contrast with limited development of the new themes — equality, security, empowerment of the poor — and of issues to do with aid: resources and rights. Contributors to this special issue discuss the dilemma reflected in Attacking Poverty from a number of angles: critical self‐awareness by World Bank, promoting equality, shifting from the Washington Consensus, limits to the Bank's role, and enabling collective action by the poor. Other contributions discuss how the analysis in Attacking Poverty should be strengthened: inclusion of urban poverty and urbanisation's role in political development, promoting informal means of reducing vulnerability, and investigation of the long term consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Priorities for the next poverty‐focused World Development Report (2010?) should include a more disaggregated and complete view of who is poor, why and where, and analysis of progress in political development. The World Bank may be best able to contribute to political development by extending to the subnational and public services level its main achievement of recent decades: the gathering, analysis and dissemination of comparative development data, to help move the focus of politics towards improving services and living standards. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN:0954-1748
1099-1328