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Developing countries, with the support of multilateral institutions, the bilateral development assistance community and civil society organisations, are focusing as never before on the development priority of reducing poverty by half by 2015. Country-led and country-owned poverty reduction strategies focusing on local needs and priorities as determined by stakeholders are now the focus of all development assistance efforts. The DAC Guidelines on Poverty Reduction provide practical information about the nature of poverty and best practice approaches, policies, instruments and channels for tackling it. They also break new ground in setting out the parameters for building effective partnerships with governments, civil society, and other development actors, and in describing how institutional change and development within bilateral agencies themselves could be undertaken for mainstreaming poverty reduction, partnership and policy coherence.

Economic assistance -- Developing countries. --- Poverty -- Developing countries. --- Economic assistance --- Poverty --- Business & Economics --- Economic History

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Entrepreneurship and Sustainability challenges the notion that not-for-profit social entrepreneurship is the only sort that can lead to the alleviation of poverty. It explores how best to bring commercial investors together with those who are best placed to reach the poorest customers. With case studies from around the World, the focus of the contributions is on the new breed of entrepreneurs who are blending a profit motive with a desire to make a difference in their communities and beyond borders. A significant number of the contributions here also recognize that although much research has b

Poverty -- Developing countries -- Case studies. --- Poverty -- Developing countries. --- Social entrepreneurship -- Case studies. --- Social entrepreneurship. --- Social entrepreneurship --- Poverty --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Management Styles & Communication --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Entrepreneurship --- E-books

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International finance --- Developing countries --- Debts, External - Developing countries. --- Debt relief - Developing countries. --- Poverty - Developing countries. --- Debts, External --- Debt relief --- Poverty

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Traces the historical experience in developed and developing countries of putting into practice rights to social security, including social insurance, and an adequate standard of living. Outlines three distinct forms of models for welfare states: the Nordic or Social Democratic model (Scandinavia), the Corporatist model (Germany), and the Liberal or Residual model (UK and USA).

Developing countries -- Social policy. --- Income maintenance programs -- Developing countries. --- Poverty -- Developing countries -- Prevention. --- Poverty -- Prevention -- International cooperation.

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Economic growth --- Social policy --- Poverty --- Developing countries --- Economic policy --- Economic conditions --- Poverty - Developing countries --- Developing countries - Economic policy --- Developing countries - Economic conditions