Working paper | In Poverty and political capabilities, in Politics and Poverty, Web online magazine The Broker : Connecting worlds of knowledge. Issue n°3 | August 2007
Jean-Luc Dubois welcomes Koonings’ pragmatic reintroduction of the political dimension to questions of development. Adding politics implies that key issues of inequity, social exclusion and human insecurity must be dealt with. Appropriate policy design at the macro level is as important as strengthening people’s political capabilities at the micro level.
Comments on the chapter on bringing politics into poverty. The political dimensions of poverty alleviation (PDF, 171.5 ko)