Cover Finance & Development
Finance & Development, June 2002
Author: International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Series:
Finance & Development
Volume/Issue:
Volume 39: Issue 002
Language:
English
Publication Date:
01 Jan 2002
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451952896.022
ISBN:
9781451952896
ISSN:
0015-1947
Pages:
58
Keywords:
FD; F&D; country; government; debt; oil fund; poverty count; exchange rate volatility; policy development; Johannesburg summit; Poverty reduction strategy; Poverty reduction; Value-added tax; Exchange rates; Global; Africa; Europe; Eastern Europe; Baltics
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This paper highlights that despite unprecedented gains in living standards in some countries over the past few decades, poverty continues as a harsh reality in too much of the developing world. The causes lie in part with poor country governments that have not followed through on the policies and programs needed to accelerate growth and eradicate poverty. But they also reflect the uneven record of development assistance and protectionist trade policies and agricultural subsidies in industrial countries, which have dampened profitable investment and growth in the developing world.
Cover Finance & Development
Finance & Development
ISSN:
0015-1947
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund