What connects regulatory governance to poverty?

Improving Governance to Eradicate Poverty and Hunger

W hy has eradicating hunger and poverty proved difficult despite its being a declared goal of the international development community for more than half a century? Why has the number of hungry people increased in recent years? Why is poverty particularly persistent in Sub-Saharan Africa? Why do economically successful developing countries in Asia and Latin America have regions lagging in eradic...

Good Governance and Poverty

Justice or Beneficence: What Regulatory Virtue for Nano-Governance?

With nanotechnology we are not only moving into a new technological world but into 'a new legal, ethical, economic, social, cultural and political one too'. The article examines the questions of value preference in this transition to the new technological world and proposes to employ the moral concept of beneficence as a regulatory virtue for the governance of nanotechnology. Setting up the con...

Participatory Poverty and Governance Assessment

ADB Acknowledgements First and foremost, we would like to thank all of the poor households – men, women, boys and girls – from the five selected villages of Ea'Ral and Village 7C of Ea'Hleo District, Buzara and Village 2 of Dak'Rlap District, and Ale B Village of Eatam Ward in DakLak Province where the Participatory Poverty and Governance Assessment was carried out. We would like to thank them ...

Governance, Growth and Poverty Reduction

Poverty reduction is a function of economic growth, income distribution and distribution changes. Governance can impact both growth and income distribution. The dominant market-enhancing governance paradigm seeks to enhance the efficiency of markets through ‘good governance’ reforms, ostensibly to trigger or sustain growth. ‘Pro-poor’ good governance reforms purport to enhance the scale and eff...