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Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Year: 2013

Type: book

Abstract: How much would poor nations need to invest to eliminate poverty, get all children in school and provide adequate basic health care for all? Can they afford it? Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East provides some clear answers to these questions. The contributors assess feasible financing strategies underpinning actions to enhance human development in pursuance of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The contributors analyse these strategies in the context of broader concerns of economic development in nine countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The assessments stress the importance of redesigning macroeconomic policies so as to make these more supportive of long-term economic growth and employment creation, while ensuring sufficient investments in human development in order to end poverty and overcome deep-rooted inequalities.

Source: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks

DOI: 10.5040/9781472544551

Authors: Sánchez, Marco V., Vos, Rob

Language: English

Topic: International Development and Aid

Subfield: Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Partnerships for the goals, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: United Nations Development Programme, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam

OpenAlex ID: W1272736863

FWCI: 1.355

Cites: 48

Cited by: 6

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