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Title: | Targeting rural poverty in sub-Saharan Africa: a poverty alleviation policy framework with particular reference to Cameroon |
Authors: | Jonas, Tchakoa Nji, Ajaga |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | African Anthropology (ISSN 1024-0969) |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 82-108 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Cameroon |
Subjects: | poverty Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.ajol.info/index.php/aa/article/view/23081 |
Abstract: | Current African experience with development indicates that poverty alleviation remains the greatest challenge facing African leaders and scholars. Approaches hitherto adopted in combating poverty have incurred high opportunity costs. Rather than rely on general transfers and other indirect mechanisms, governments can achieve more in terms of poverty reduction by locating the poor and targeting them in various appropriate programmes. Limited resources must be targeted to those who need them most, and poverty reduction programmes must be decentralized in such a way that they can be closely monitored and the services equitably delivered. After reviewing the main issues in poverty alleviation, particularly the concept, its measurement (income-centred and basic needs measures) and past strategies of poverty alleviation, the authors analyse the targeting strategy and show how to evaluate its performance before discussing the applicability of the targeting framework in the case of Cameroon. Bibliogr. |