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Eliminating Human Poverty focuses on how basic social services, particularly education, health and water, can be financed and delivered more effectively. At this ODI and Zed Books event, one of the co-authors, Santosh Mehrotra, presented the findings and Prof Sir Richard Jolly discussed the implications.
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Speaker: Santosh Mehrotra, Co-author and adviser to the Planning Commission, Government of India Discussant: Prof Sir Richard Jolly, Honorary Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Chair: Andrew Shepherd, Director of Programmes and Research Fellow, Rural Policy and Governance Group (RPGG), ODI
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An ODI and Zed Books
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Eliminating Human Poverty focuses on how basic social services, particularly education, health and water, can be financed and delivered more effectively. Drawing on their own broad-ranging research at UNICEF and UNDP, the authors argue that fiscal, monetary, and other macro-economic policies for poverty reduction, human development and economic growth can be compatible with micro-level interventions to provide basic social services. Policymakers have more flexibility than is usually assumed to engage in macro-economic and growth-oriented policies that can also expand human capabilities and fulfil human rights. More than just more aid is needed. Strategic shifts in aid policy, decentralized governance, health and education and the private-public mix in service provision are a prerequisite to achieve the goals of human development and to eliminate human poverty within a generation.
At this ODI and Zed Books event, one of the co-authors, Santosh Mehrotra, presented the findings and Prof Sir Richard Jolly discussed the implications.
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