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Asset Accumulation: An Alternative Approach to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
- Source :
- Development Policy Review; Nov2012, Vol. 30 Issue 6, p663-680, 18p, 2 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are unlikely to be achieved by 2015, owing to conceptual flaws in their design as well as the structural and political constraints faced during implementation at the country level. While criticism of the MDGs is widespread, innovative ideas on addressing these operational challenges are still scanty. By reviewing a number of experiences, including those of the Foundation for the Promotion of Local Development (PRODEL) in Nicaragua and the Ministry of Cities in Brazil, this article highlights the importance of incorporating an asset-accumulation perspective into MDG-related policies and programmes as a way of generating an enabling environment that opens up new opportunities for poverty reduction in the cities of low- and middle-low-income countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ECONOMIC structure
POLITICAL systems
ECONOMIC development
POVERTY reduction
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09506764
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Development Policy Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 82370099
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2012.00593.x