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Danish aid policies for poverty alleviation.
By: Udsholt, Lars.
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BookPublisher: Copenhagen : CDR, 1996Subject(s): Foreign Aid | Danida -- Denmark -- Aid policy -- Poverty -- Economic aid/. -- Danida -- Denmark -- Aid policy -- Poverty -- Economic aid/. -- Danida -- Denmark -- Aid policy -- Poverty -- Economic aid/. -- Danida -- Denmark -- Aid policy -- Poverty -- Economic aid/. -- Danida -- Denmark -- Aid policy -- Poverty -- Economic aidSummary: The paper provides an analysis of Danida policies in the poverty reduction era. Current Danish aid efforts to address poverty issues are based on a prolonged understanding among policy makers and aid bureaucrats that a basic premise of Danish aid has been its focus on alleviating poverty. The paper argues that the lack of more explicit and operational poverty focus during the last two decades has implied important constraints on the effectiveness on past poverty reduction efforts. Thus, Danish aid displays both specific results at the level of individual interventions and 'missed opportunities' in terms of failing to address a number of institutional and structural constraints for poverty reduction. Ackowledgements are made of recent important advancement in Danida's approach to poverty reduction. Still, the paper also points to a number of critical challenges and constraints related to further operationalising the new policy framework.
The paper provides an analysis of Danida policies in the poverty reduction era. Current Danish aid efforts to address poverty issues are based on a prolonged understanding among policy makers and aid bureaucrats that a basic premise of Danish aid has been its focus on alleviating poverty. The paper argues that the lack of more explicit and operational poverty focus during the last two decades has implied important constraints on the effectiveness on past poverty reduction efforts. Thus, Danish aid displays both specific results at the level of individual interventions and 'missed opportunities' in terms of failing to address a number of institutional and structural constraints for poverty reduction. Ackowledgements are made of recent important advancement in Danida's approach to poverty reduction. Still, the paper also points to a number of critical challenges and constraints related to further operationalising the new policy framework.
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