conditions for everyone. The endurance of poverty, however, has motivated to extend the traditional "growth is good for the poor … stage with the propagation of the Millennium Development Goals, including its goal to halve poverty by 2015. -- This volume …

the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and … the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going beyond the traditional literature on poverty, this original book deals … from conventional methods employed in poverty studies, these innovative essays enquire into the institutional …