Impact of Rich Countries' Policies on Poor Countries: Towards a Level

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All United Nations heads of state have endorsed the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to reduce the incidence of absolute poverty by half by 2015. To reach those goals, growth in developing countries will have to be twice the levels achieved in the 1990s for the next fifteen years. This will require, at the least, new rules of the development game. At present, rich countries exercise... Read more

All United Nations heads of state have endorsed the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to reduce the incidence of absolute poverty by half by 2015. To reach those goals, growth in developing countries will have to be twice the levels achieved in the 1990s for the next fifteen years. This will require, at the least, new rules of the development game.

At present, rich countries exercise control over the institutions that oversee the global economy. This volume addresses a curiously neglected area of policy analysis--the impact of rich countries' policies on the global poor. Four-fifths of the world's people subsist on one-fifth of the world's income. One-fifth live in abject poverty, on less than one dollar a day. The main responsibility for reducing poverty reduction naturally rests with developing countries. But globalization means that rich countries must also play their part.Industrialized countries dominate global environmental management through the heavy ecological footprint of their production and consumption patterns. Adjustments of their policies by rich countries may be as critical as government reforms in poor countries. Past research has concentrated on policy adjustments that need to be made within poor countries to aid effectiveness, and trade reform.

Relatively little is known about the economic consequences of migration, control of intellectual property, and environmental regulations. Even less research has been done on the interaction and combined impact of the full spectrum of rich countries' policies on the economy, society, and ecology in poor countries. These knowledge gaps inhibit rational debate, let alone evidence-based policymaking that may lead towards sustainable and equitable growth. At current levels, aid alone cannot deliver adequate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.The surveys by eminent development analysts and practitioners included in this volume sketch a road map for a better understanding of the mechanics of globalization and the improved design of development policies.

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1: Overview; 2: Reducing Poverty in a World of Plenty: The Crisis of Aid; Comments on “Reducing Poverty in a World of Plenty: The Crisis of Aid”: Is There an Aid Crisis?; 3: Globalization, Developed Country Policies, and Market Access: Insights from the Bangladesh Experience; Comments on “Globalization, Developed Country Policies, and Market Access: Some Insights from the Bangladesh Experience”; 4: Rich Country Policies and the Poor: Harnessing Foreign Direct Investment for Pro-Poor Development; 5: The Development Impact of Developed-World Policies on Developing Countries: The Case of Trade; 6: The Development Impact of Rich Countries’ Policies: The Case of Intellectual Property Rights; 7: Migration as a Factor in Development and Poverty Reduction: The Impact of Rich Countries’ Immigration Policies on the Prospects of the Poor; 8: Impacts of the Policies of Rich Countries on the Prospects for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Poor Countries: Focus on the Environment 1; 9: Some Observations on the Question of Coherence and Development; 10: Linking Research, Monitoring, and Advocacy: Worlds Together or Worlds Apart?; 11: Security and Development

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Rachel Weaving

Impact of Rich Countries' Policies on Poor Countries Towards a Level Playing Field in Development Cooperation

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