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How best to link poverty reduction and debt sustainability in IMF-World Bank models?
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posted on 2006-05-30, 11:51 authored by Brigitte Granville, Sushanta K. MallickThis paper attempts to provide an economic model in the context of developing countries to address the policy strategies related to poverty reduction. With a view to deal with the shortcomings of the existing approaches as regards poverty reduction, this paper develops a model on the basis of the policy framework of the IMF and the World Bank to show how demand growth can be a crucial mechanism in determining the potential rate of growth, and then to suggest ways in which poverty—conceptualised officially in absolute terms with a subjective cut-off point (e.g. US $1/$2 a day), and a new objective measure in terms of consumption deprivation—can be linked with the key policy variables contained in the adjustment programmes. A strategy of investment in infrastructure and in human development, and improving access to credit markets, particularly in rural areas to encourage or ‘crowd in’ private investment is a precondition for growth and poverty alleviation. Debt relief can only provide a temporary, not a sustainable, solution to the problem of reducing poverty.
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- Business and Economics
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- Economics
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GRANVILLE, B. and MALLICK, S., 2005. How best to link poverty reduction and debt sustainability in IMF-World Bank models? International Review of Applied Economics, 19(1), pp. 67-85.Publisher
© Taylor and FrancisPublication date
2005Notes
This is Restricted Access. The article was published in the journal, International Review of Applied Economics [© Taylor and Francis] and is available at: http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0269-2171.ISSN
0269-2171Language
- en