Eliminating Human Poverty: Macroeconomic and Social Policies for Equitable Growth

This book focuses on the provision of basic social services - in particular, access to education, health and water supplies - as the central building blocks of any human development strategy. The authors concentrate on how these basic social services can be financed and delivered more effectively to achieve the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals.

Their analysis, which departs from the dominant macro-economic paradigm, deploys the results of broad-ranging research they led at...