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The Fiscal Costs of a Basic Human Needs Strategy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Robert L. Curry Jr  and
Donald Rothchild
Robert L. Curry Jr
Affiliation:
Professor of Economics, California State University, Sacramento
Donald Rothchild
Affiliation:
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Davis
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Disappointed with the development performance of most Third-World countries during the past two decades, many scholars and public officials have looked for a more effective strategy. They are concerned not merely with the extent of growth, but where it has occurred, with evidence that relatively little of the benefits of increased productivity has ‘trickled down’ to the poorer half of the populations of these lands. Capital-intensive methods have raised expectations in both the urban and the rural areas without generating adequate employment opportunities or distributing the benefits of growth equitably. As a consequence, the many poor remain as desperately disadvantaged as they ever were, making a re-evaluation of development priorities, within as well as outside of Africa, of the utmost importance at this juncture.

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Africana
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 1980 , pp. 143 - 150
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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