Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

This book assesses feasible financing strategies for policymakers to follow in pursuance of human development, taking as reference the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their achievement by 2015. The contributors to this book analyse these strategies in the context of broader concerns of economic development, with special reference to nine countries from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. They look at how macroeconomic policies might more effectively support sustained growth while reducing poverty, inequality and other human development gaps in low and middle-income countries, especially in times of global economic crises or external shocks'

Marco V. Sánchez is Economic Affairs Officer at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (UN/DESA), New York, USA, and was previously associated with the Sub-Regional Office in Mexico City of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Rob Vos is Leader of the Strategic Programme to Reduce Rural Poverty and Director of the Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome, Italy. Previously he was Director of the Development Policy and Analysis at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (UN/DESA). He is also Professor of Finance and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Preface

About the Editors

About other Contributors

Financing Options and Challenges to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Africa, Asia and the Middle East; Marco V. Sánchez, Rob Vos, Keiji Inoue, and Diyora Kabulova

Egypt; Motaz Khorshid, Ahmed Kamaly, Heba El-Laithy and Sohair Abou El-Enein

Kyrgyzstan; Roman Mogilevsky and Anara Omorova

Philippines; Roehlano M. Briones, Francis Quimba, Myrna Asuncion, Jonathan B. Bungcayao, Joseph B. Paglingayen and Ivee Libunao

Senegal; Abdoulaye Diagne, François Joseph Cabral, Anne-Sophie Robilliard and Fatou Cissé

South Africa; Marna Kearney and Ayodele Odusola

Tunisia; Marco V. Sánchez and Mohammed Chemingui

Uganda; John Mary Matovu, Evarist Twimukye, Albert Musisi and Sebastian Levine

Uzbekistan; Ulugbek Olimov and Yadgar Fayzullaev

Yemen; Martín Cicowiez and Hans Lofgren

Index