Responsiveness of Political Systems to Poverty Reduction

A Research Project Commissioned by the UK Department for International Development

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***Read a synthesis of the conclusions of the research project: Politics And Poverty: A Background Paper For The World Development Report 2000/1 by Mick Moore and James Putzel (137Kb)

• Michael R. Anderson, Access to Justice and Legal Process: Making Legal Institutions Responsive to Poor People in LDCs (135Kb)
• Richard C Crook and Alan Sturla Sverrisson, To What Extent Can Decentralised Forms of Government Enhance the Development of Pro-Poor Policies and Improve Poverty-Alleviation Outcomes? (184Kb)
• John Harriss, How Much Difference Does Politics Make? Regime Differences Across Indian States and Rural Poverty Reduction (114Kb)
• Ronald J. Herring, Political Conditions for Agrarian Reform and Poverty Alleviation (109Kb)
• Peter P. Houtzager and Jonathan Pattenden, Finding the Shape of the Mountain: When ‘the Poor’ Set the National Agenda (98Kb)
• Marcus Kurtz, The Political Economy of Pro-Poor Policies in Chile and Mexico (85Kb)
• Mick Moore, Jennifer Leavy, Peter Houtzager and Howard White, Polity Qualities: How Governance Affects Poverty (85Kb)
• Kimberly J. Niles, Economic Adjustment and Targeted Social Spending: the Role of Political Institutions (Indonesia, Mexico, and Ghana) (385Kb)
• Ashutosh Varshney, Democracy and poverty (111Kb)
• Laurence Whitehead and  George Gray-Molina, The Long Term Politics of Pro-Poor Policies (111Kb)

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