India - Evaluating Bank assistance for poverty reduction : a country assistance evaluation
Pellekaan, Jack van Holst
The objective of this paper is to assess the extent to which the Bank's analytical (non-lending) work and lending operations have had an impact on poverty reduction in India over the last decade with the main focus on the last five years. The paper focuses on a number of issues important to poverty reduction: 1) macroeconomic stability to reduce the "inflation tax" on the poor; 2) growth in poorer states and regions and investment opportunities and establishing programs to stimulate "pro poor" growth; 3) developing rural areas (both farm and non-farm) by providing employment for all labor; increased farm productivity and production will create many jobs for the poor (in this context, the private sector has an important contribution to make in achieving widespread poverty reduction); 4) improving social services on a wide front in order to improve human capital and provide the poor with the initial conditions to partcipate in the labor market for off-farm jobs; 5) supporting improvements in the structure, quality, and sensitivity of governance at the district, community, and village levels in order to enhance the rate of development of social capital so that effective and efficient targeted programs of assistance to the poor can be implemented that will provide benefits directly to the poor; and 6) poverty monitoring and evaluation.
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