Management

Land & Development in Latin America

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The quest to eradicate poverty has, for some time, been at the forefront of
the policies, programs and operations of development agencies. Poverty
eradication has also been the subject of considerable research by academics
and policy analysts. At the extraordinary Summit convened by the UN in
September 2000, the international community agreed to work together to
reduce the incidence of extreme poverty and hunger by at least one-half by
the year 2015, along with a series of other critical Millennium Development
Goals. Much effort is currently being invested in operations and research to
pursue these objectives.
More recently, development analysts have deepened their research to
examine the relationship between poverty and inequality. Partly this has
been due to the fact that inequality in many countries around the world has
widened considerably in the last quarter century. Partly it is due to new
research findings that suggest greater income inequality undermines economic
growth, which in turn undermines poverty reduction. In other words,
the eradication of poverty is an easier task in less unequal societies. Such a
proposition suggests that policy-makers and analysts aiming at poverty
reduction should focus greater efforts on reducing inequalities in income
distribution.

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Series Title

Land & Development in Latin America

Call Number

Canada

Publisher

: International Development Research Centre., 2004

Collation

1-97

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

1-896770-67-3

Classification

Canada

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Edition

1st Edition

Subject(s)

Management

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