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Basic Needs in the Year 2000

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  • PAUL STREETEN

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The paper distills the main lessons of recent country and sector work on basic-needs approaches to development. It argues that, drawing on this experience and adopting appropriate policies, the basic needs of the world's poor can be met in a shorter period of time, and with fewer resources-i.e. by the year 2000-than if the more conventional approach of relying solely on rising incomes is chosen. Raising the earning opportunities of the poor remains a central thrust of the strategy, but it has to be supplemented by actions in the public sector and within households.

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  • Paul Streeten, 1980. "Basic Needs in the Year 2000," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 19(2), pages 129-141.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:19:y:1980:i:2:p:129-141
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    1. Siddiqui, Rizwana, 2008. "Human Capital vs Physical Capital: A cross country analysis of human development strategies," MPRA Paper 13999, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Dec 2008.

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