To the Editor: David Brooks should be congratulated for stating that greater attention to poverty reduction is needed.
Targeted premium subsidization nonetheless appears to offer more cost-effective poverty reduction than need-based direct transfers.
Adaptation to current climate variability and potential climate change is a prerequisite for sustainable development and poverty reduction and needs to be integrated into the broader water resources development and management processes.
To the extent that one may locate benefits and public subsidies that do not find justification in terms of poverty reduction or needs of the productive system, their elimination would make room for tax reduction or redirection of the corresponding resources.
From the perspective of child poverty reduction, PFM systems need to be seen as critical levers linking policy goals to service delivery on the ground.
Still, to accelerate poverty reduction, developing nations will need to adopt structural reforms that promote job creation, strengthen financial systems, and shore up social safety nets".
Both countries were challenged to align the poverty reduction strategies and the needs expressed during the participatory consultations.
Smarter investments tailored to poverty reduction and meeting the needs of the most vulnerable children can yield short and long-term dividends, and this is a global objective of UNICEF's work with governments across the world," Sylwander added.
This indicates the need for poverty reduction policies capable of increasing incomes of the poor more in the rural sector than in the urban sector in order to achieve similar reductions in poverty rates.
