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How best to link poverty reduction and debt sustainability in IMF--World Bank models?

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BRIGITTE GRANVILLE
SUSHANTA MALLICK

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This paper attempts to provide an economic model in the context of developing countries to address the policy strategies related to poverty reduction. With a view to deal with the shortcomings of the existing approaches as regards poverty reduction, this paper develops a model on the basis of the policy framework of the IMF and the World Bank to show how demand growth can be a crucial mechanism in determining the potential rate of growth, and then to suggest ways in which poverty--conceptualised officially in absolute terms with a subjective cut-off point (e.g. US $1/$2 a day), and a new objective measure in terms of consumption deprivation--can be linked with the key policy variables contained in the adjustment programmes. A strategy of investment in infrastructure and in human development, and improving access to credit markets, particularly in rural areas to encourage or 'crowd in' private investment is a precondition for growth and poverty alleviation. Debt relief can only provide a temporary, not a sustainable, solution to the problem of reducing poverty.

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Volume (Year): 19 (2005)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 67-85
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Keywords: Stabilisation; growth; poverty reduction; debt sustainability;

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