Description
A New Perspective on Poverty in the Caribbean reflects on the current approaches to the challenge of poverty reduction in the context of the findings of the qualitative and quantitative analyses and identifies some critical ingredients for successful poverty-reduction interventions around which a regional consensus could be built.
The role and nature of participation, the policy environment for social services delivery are considered along with specific poverty reduction interventions and the general approach to poverty reduction in the Caribbean.
About the Authors
Juliet Melville is Chief Research Economist, Social and Economic Research Unit at the Caribbean Development Bank.
Eleanor Wint is a past Head of the Social Work Unit, university of the West Indies, Mona and Coordinator of the Community Development Programme at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Abbreviations and Acronyms
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- Why ‘A New Perspective?’ – Eleanor Wint and Yves Renard
- The Poor in the Caribbean: Some Facts, Figures and Postulates – Eleanor Wint
- Some New Findings from CPAs in the Eastern Caribbean – Christine Frank
- Implications for Social Service Delivery in a Weak Social Policy Environment – Aldrie Henry-Lee
- Participatory Approaches, Social Policy and Poverty Reduction – Yves Renard and Eleanor Wint
- Conclusion – Eleanor Wint
Appendix
Contributors
Index
