Dilemmas of Poverty and Development

A new study has found that current regional initiatives to address poverty will not result in the Millennium Development Goals being met by 2015. The study formed part of the Helsinki Process on Globalisation and Democracy aimed at evolving new solutions to global problems in which the Institute for Global Dialogue and the Africa Institute of South Africa explored the nexus between poverty and development in the Southern African Development Community.

The study calls for a change of paradigm in order to achieve people-centred development that will strengthen the political influence of the poor, with the state playing a central role in shaping social and economic policy, and pursuing an active developmental agenda.

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