Universal Social Safety-Net and the Attack on World Poverty
The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap. This must be done country by country, on the initiative of each country’s government: with the maximum involvement of its own civil society, and with the rich world also making a contribution. To add momentum, the international community needs to adopt targets far more specific than the fifty percent extreme ‘poverty reduction’ of the first Millennium Development Goal.
Anthony Clunies-Ross is Emeritus Professor at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. His publications include Taxation of Mineral Rents (jointly with Ross Garnaut, Clarendon Press, 1983), and he is co-author (with David Forsyth and Mozammel Huq) of Development Economics (McGraw-Hill, 2009).
Mozammel Huq teaches at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and is also Visiting Professor of Economics at Uttar Bangla College (National University, Bangladesh). He is the author of a number of books including The Economy of Ghana: The First 25 Years since Independence (Macmillan, 1989), and is co-author (with David Forsyth and Anthony Clunies-Ross) of Development Economics (McGraw-Hill, 2009).