Poverty Reduction

Resource Library

Civil Society and Participation

CSO Perspectives on Poverty Reduction Strategies: A Resource Sheet (2005)

Civic Engagement in Key Policy Processes – UNDP and the PRSP: An Evaluation of Seven Countries in Central and Eastern Africa (2002).

CSO Perspectives on the MDGs (2004)

Guidebook: African Civil Society Engagement in the MDGs (2003).

Multilateral Trade System: A Development Perspective and An Independent Review of CSO engagement in the PSIA Process (forthcoming).

 

Debt

Zambia Debt Strategies to Meet the Millennium Development Goals

Egypt Country Discussion Paper: MDG-based Debt Sustainability Analysis

Discussion paper number 1: Domestic Resource Mobilization, Fiscal Space, and the MDGs: Implications for Debt Sustainability, Roy Culpeper and Nihal Kappagoda, The North-South Institute, paper commissioned by UNDP, 2007

Discussion paper number 2: External Debt and the Millennium Development Goals, Stephen Spratt, paper commissioned by UNDP, 2007

Discussion paper number 3: MDG-consistent Debt Sustainability: How to Ease the Tension between Achieving the MDGs and Maintaining Debt Sustainability, Bernhard Gunter, paper commissioned by UNDP, 2007

Discussion paper number 4: MDG Achievement and Debt Sustainability in HIPC and Other Critically Indebted Developing Countries: Thoughts on an Assessment Framework, Damoni Kitabire and Moses Kabanda, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Uganda, paper commissioned by UNDP, 2007

Discussion paper number 5: Debt Sustainability and the Millennium Development Goals in Emerging Market Economies, Yilmaz Akyuz, paper commissioned by UNDP, 2007

HIPC practice note, November 2003

Debt relief as if people mattered: A rights-based approach to debt sustainability, New Economics Foundation

 

Development Finance

Using The Country-Based Development Model To Scale Up For Results: An Agenda For Action - The World Bank and UNDP established a Joint Task Force in March 2006 to identify a shared approach to scaling-up at the country level. The intention was to build on the work already undertaken by the World Bank and OECD-DAC while addressing the World Summit Outcome Document’s call for MDG-based national development strategies. This paper was prepared for the OECD/DAC World Bank Third Meeting on Scaling Up for Results, 27 June 2006 in Paris, as the first output of this Task Force.

The Macroeconomics of Aid, UNDP, January 2006

 

Employment

Human Rights-Based Approach to Poverty Reduction – Analytical Linkages, Practical Work and UNDP, by Selim Jahan

Growth, Employment and Poverty: An Analysis of the Vital Nexus Based on Some Recent UNDP and ILO/SIDA Studies. Paper prepared under the joint ILO-UNDP programme on Promoting Employment for Poverty Reduction, by Azizur Rahman Khan

Exploring the Employment Nexus: Topics in Employment and Poverty, by S. R. Osmani, A report prepared for the Task Force on the Joint ILO-UNDP Programme on Employment and Poverty, May 2002

The Employment Nexus between Growth and Poverty: An Asian Perspective, S. R. Osmani, University of Ulster, U.K., March 2004, A Report prepared for SIDA and UNDP

Investment for Poverty Reducing Employment in Africa: Review of case studies and an analytical framework By Carlos Oya & John Weeks, Report to the UNDP and ILO, May 2004

Reorienting Development: Towards an Engendered Employment Strategy by Selim Jahan UNDP, 2004

Employment Policies for Sustainable Development: The Experience of Ghana, by William Baah-Boateng, University of Ghana, Presented at a national workshop on an employment framework for Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, organised by the Government of Ghana/UNDP/ILO, May 2004

Elements of an Employment Framework for Poverty Reduction in Ghana, Report of a joint ILO/UNDP mission, Prepared by James Heintz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, July 2004

Learn more about the: UNDP-ILO Joint Programme on Employment and Poverty. Also see the ILO Employment and Poverty Website.

 

GENDER

'Reorienting development – engendering employment strategies' by Selim Jahan, Working Paper no. 5, International Poverty Centre (IPC), UNDP, Brasilia, February 2005.

 

ICTD

ICTs and their place in Poverty Reduction Strategies: A Resource Guide for Practitioners in Development and ICT Communities (forthcoming, December 2006).

Options and Integrated approaches for advancing Local Economic & Social Development in the Digital Age (forthcoming December 2006).

ICT Policy Formulation and e-Strategy Development: A comprehensive guidebook ( Richard Labelle for UNDP-APDIP, 2005).

Development divides and digital bridges: why ICT is key for achieving the MDGs (Shoji Nishimoto and Radhika Lal, Commonwealth Finance Ministers Reference Report, 2005)

Community-based Networks and Innovative Technologies: New models to serve and empower the poor, (Seán Ó Siochrú and Bruce Girard, 2005)

Regional Human Development Report – Promoting ICT for Human Development in Asia: Realising the Millennium Development Goals (Editors: Anuradha Rajivan, Ramesh Gampat, Elena Borsatti, Achila Imchen and Susan Howes UNDP-APDIP, 2005)

APDIP E-Primers for the Information Economy, Society and Polity. This series details the concepts, issues and trends surrounding the information economy, society and polity. It intends to raise awareness and help policy makers and planners understand the relevance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for development, by explaining technical jargon in simple terms

Telecottage Handbook: How to Establish and Run a Successful Telecentre: A practical guide to establishing a telecottage as well as a valuable source of experiences and lessons learned, this report was prepared by members of the telecottage movement. This publication is intended for ICT professionals, community development practitioners and public administrators who wish to improve social services delivery at a local level, and who recognize that telecottages can be used in service of individual, local and community poverty reduction. (UNDP Europe and the CIS, 2006)

How to Build Open Information Societies: A collection of best practices and know-how. This publication presents a collection of knowledge-based best practices accumulated by UNDP in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Its main purpose is to identify and share UNDP's know-how in this rapidly emerging area, by showing how ICT can promote socio-economic development and good governance.

Bridging the Gender Digital Divide: A Regional Report on Gender and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Commissioned by UNDP, this report represents a joint effort of UNDP and UNIFEM to deepen knowledge about gender dimensions within ICT for Development (ICTD) and to strengthen integration of gender within the work of UNDP and others working to promote ICTD in the region.

"National & Regional E-Development Strategies: A Blueprint for Action" in The Role of ICT in Global Development (p29-70), UN ICT Task Force UNDP (Gilhooly, Denis & Radhika Lal 2003).

Creating a Development Dynamic: Final report of the Digital Opportunity Initiative (Accenture, Markle Foundation and UNDP, 2001) - A guide to holistic e-strategy development; The Mozambique National ICTD Strategy (developed with UNDP support) incorporates holistic approach and selected costing and phasing of nationally identified priorities to facilitate speedy implementation and resource mobilization). See http://www.infopol.gov.mz/pdf/strg_eng.pdf

ICT4D-social enterprise toolkit - This Toolkit is a showcase of good practice and lessons learned from Digital Divide Data, a non-profit Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) established in Cambodia in July 200. Digital Divide Data was tasked to develop integrated educational and vocational opportunities for disadvantaged groups through providing outsourced data services, such as digitalization of data, to business and public sector customers.

 

Intellectual Property Rights

Remuneration Guidelines for Non-Voluntary Use of a Patent on Medical Technology - UNDP/WHO, 2005.
This paper addresses WTO provisions regarding remuneration for non-voluntary use of patents; experience of royalty setting in voluntary and non-voluntary settings; the policy framework for setting royalties on medicines in developing countries; and proposed royalty guideline frameworks.

 

Macro and Structural Policies

The Macroeconomics of MDG-Based PRSPs

"MDG-Based PRSPs Need More Ambitious Economic Policies" Terry McKinley, Poverty Group, January 2005.

The Macroeconomic Consequences of Scaling up ODA for the MDGs

"Why Is the Dutch Disease Always a Disease? The Macroeconomic Consequences of Scaling up ODA" Terry McKinley, Working Paper #10 of the International Poverty Centre, November 2005.

"Gearing Macroeconomic Policies to Manage Large Inflows of ODA: Implications for HIV/AIDS Programmes" by Anis Chowdhury and Terry McKinley, Working Paper #17 of the International Poverty Centre, may 2006.

"The Macroeconomic Debate on Scaling up HIV/AIDS Financing" Terry McKinley and Degol Hailu, Policy Research Brief #1 of the International Poverty Centre, September 2006.

The Privatisation and Commercialisation of Public Services

"Can Privatisation and Commercialisation of Public Services Help Achieve the MDGs? An Assessment" Kate Bayliss and Tim Kessler, Working Paper #22 of the International Poverty Centre, July 2006.

"Utilities' Pricing and the Poor: The Case of Armenia" Frederick Nixson and Bernard Walters, Paper prepared for the Global UNDP Project "Privatisation and Poverty Reduction", June 2005. [to be provided]

Global Imbalances and Macroeconomic Responses

"The Monopoly of Global Capital Flows: Who Needs Structural Adjustment Now?" Terry McKinley, Working Paper #12 of the International Poverty Centre, March 2006.

"Addressing Global Imbalances: A Development-Oriented Policy Agenda" Alex Izurieta and Terry McKinley, Working Paper #23 of the International Poverty Centre, July 2006.

 

MDG-based National Development Strategies

National Ownership
Civil Society Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals (2005). Leading civil society organizations (CSOs) offer their perspectives on what the global goals do and don’t offer — providing ideas for how to improve them at the country level.

The Millennium Development Goals (2003). Series of articles from the UNDP Development Policy Journal that focus on: are the MDGs feasible, sustainable development and the MDGs, and Goal 8: global partnerships.

Statistical Capacity and Monitoring
Indicators for Poverty Monitoring: A Practical Guide for Enhancing the Statistical Capacity of Policy-makers for Effective Monitoring of the MDGs at the Country Level (2006). (Available in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish). Practical guidance and training materials on how to use MDG and other indicators in formulating and evaluating policies for evidence-based planning.

Tracking Human Development: The Use of Statistics in Monitoring Social Conditions (2004). While targeted at transitional countries, the manual aims to improve the use of statistical data to monitor social conditions.

Reporting
Making the MDGs Matter (2005). UNCT study completed by UNDP and UNDG on how support is being provided to countries on the MDGs.

MDG Monitoring and Reporting: A Review of Good Practices (2005). Country-level analysis of lessons learned from national monitoring and reporting processes on the MDGs.

Millennium Development Goals Reports: An Assessment (2003). A review of the value added, content and advocacy role of MDGRs.

 

MDG Support

 

Migration

Secretary General’s paper on migration and development

A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration
UNFPA – State of World Population 2006

 

Public Resources Management

Assessing Fiscal Space in Developing Country. Chambas Gérard et al. CERDI, 26 January 2006 Concept Paper commissioned by UNDP

The Role of Public Investment in Poverty Reduction: Theories, Evidence and Methods. Anderson Ed, Paolo de Renzio and Stephanie Levy, March 2006 – Overseas development Institute – Paper commissioned by UNDP

Investing in development: The Millennium Development Goals, Aid and the Sustainable Capital Accumulation. Roy Rathin and Antoine Heuty, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs Review, spring 2005, volume 58, number 2.

Macroeconomic Policies for Poverty Reduction: The Case of Syria; Chapter 3: Fiscal Policy. Roy Rathin, UNDP, April 2005

Making Fiscal Policy Work for the Poor. Weeks John and Rathin Roy, UNDP, January 2004

Making Sense of MDG Costing. Vandemoortele Jan and Rathin Roy, UNDP, August 2004

Pro-Poor Fiscal Policy in Cambodia. Roy Rathin, UNDP, 2004

In French:

Evaluation de l’Espace Budgétaire dans les Pays en voie de Développement. Chambas Gérard et al. CERDI, 26 Janvier 2006 Document Conceptuel rédigé a la demande du PNUD

Comprendre le Calcul du Coût de la Réalisation des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement. Vandemoortele Jan et Rathin Roy, PNUD, Août 2004

MDG Financing: conceptual and empirical issues

Financing MDGs: A Issues Note (2003) - by Selim Jahan
Achieving the MDGs: A Critique and A Strategy (2004) - by Sanjay Reddy and Antoine Heuty
Making Sense of MDG Costing (2004) - by Jan Vandemoortele and Rathin Roy
How Costly is it to achieve the MDG of Halving Poverty by 2015 (2004) - by Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H Sun, International Poverty Centre Brasilia

 

Trade and Human Development

Making Globalization Work for the Least Developed Countries (2008) - English | French

Making Global Trade Work for People (2003)

Concept Note – “Aid-for-Trade: Context, Content, Concerns and a Way Forward” (January 2006)

UNDP Statement at the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Conference, China, 13-18 December 2005

UNDP Statement at the Cancun WTO Ministerial Conference, Mexico, 10-14 September 2003

Background papers commissioned by UNDP as part of the Trade and Sustainable Human Development Project:

The Multilateral Trading System: A Development Perspective (2001), by Third World Network

The Global Governance of Trade As If Development Really Mattered (2001), by Dani Rodrik

Trade, Gender and Poverty (2001), by Nilufer Cagatay