Wealth of the Poor: Eliminating Poverty through Market and Private Sector Development, Sida 2005
| Funding agency(ies) | Sida | |
|---|---|---|
| Date completed | April 2005 | |
| Issues/challenges | This Study discusses key factors behind successful pro-poor market and private sector development which include equitable distribution, gender equality, human rights and environmental considerations. Includes a tool for country-level diagnosis and assessment. |
- Description
Wealth is created by people, both poor and rich, on different types of markets. Claes Lindahl shows how development cooperation can influence international, national and local systems and institutions to provide incentives that unleash the creativity and enterprise of the poor - and that benefit the poor. Donors need, much more than in the past, to ponder how markets and the private sector can contribute to achieve the ultimate objective of development: a better life for people.
Lindahl discusses key factors behind successful pro-poor market and private sector development which include equitable distrubution, gender equality, human rights, and environmental considerations. He also shows various ways of assessing the potential of different countries to achieve development of this type, and methods for assessing their present performance.
This Study is a revised version of Sida's "Making Markets Work for the Poor" paper (Provisional Edition, October 2003); it has been restructured, and now focuses less on specific Swedish and Sida aspects, and more on general features of donor support to PSD.
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| Synthesis Documents | |
| » | Making Markets Work (for the Poor)/M4P: Some key links, 2011 |
Making Markets Work for the Poor (Brochure) (En, PDF 211kB)