Central Asian Gateway

  • 800px
  • 1024px
  • 100%
Today: July 7, 2008 Statistics

Forum / Progress of MDGs implementation / Poverty reduction in CA countries

Author Message

Julia Pan

... 		February 6, 2004 18:08
Poverty reduction is one of the key directions of social policy in developing countries. What measures have taken in CA countries?

Jakhangir Mamadjanov

... 		February 9, 2004 16:27
Perhaps, it'd better to point a question as follows: Who is taking measures and in what way? Also, Do we get or did we get any output from the measures addressed to poverty reduction?

Alina Hayrutdinova

... 		May 7, 2004 15:20
One of the key measure adressed to poverty reduction is rural development and access to the resources of microfinance for farmers and small enterprises.

Kamalova Nilufarkhon

...
Expert profile 		June 9, 2004 12:24
Representatives of International donor organizations assist in solving poverty problems and related issues. UNDP and Asian Development Bank are the main organizations working in this sphere. To solve this problem countries need to follow National poverty reduction strategies. It is also nessesary to assist to rural development, develop microfinancing for small farm economies and farmers, raise social welfare for vulnerable population.

Phillip Richardson

...
Expert profile 		June 24, 2004 17:30
At independence in 1991 the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyz Republic and Turkmenistan provided social protection for all. That situation has changed dramatically after independence. Also real GDP declined in all Central Asian states.
Fiscal policy, taxation and spending is a government's most direct tool for redistributing income, in both the short and long term. In view of this public investment in the human capital of the poor can be an efficient way to reduce income inequality over the long run.

Mered Batyrov

... 		February 17, 2005 05:42
I can't agree more with Phillip, unless the states start addressing the underlying problem of deteriorating human capital by investing massively in healthcare and education, the problem of poverty will continue to grow in scale and complexity. All other efforts, such as rural development, SME encouragement, microfinancing - whether taken individually and collectively - are only addressing the consequences of poverty, not the causes of it.