Poverty Reduction and Beyond: Development Strategies for Low-Income Countries

This book highlights strategies for poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the power of the market mechanism and vigor of the private sector, focusing ODA on a few longer term challenges and leveraging advances in technology to the fullest, and underlining the importance of human rights and security.

TAKASHI SHIRAISHI currently serves as President of IDE-JETRO, and Professor and Vice-President at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Japan. He taught at the University of Tokyo (1979-1986), Cornell University (1987-1998) and Kyoto University (1996-2005). He has published numerous books, both in Japanese and in English.

TATSUFUMI YAMAGATA is a Director of the Institute of Developing Economies as well as a professor of the IDE Advanced School, Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester, UK.

SHAHID YUSEF is Economic Adviser at the Development Economics Research Group, The World Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, USA and a BA in Economics from Cambridge University. He is the team leader for the World Bank-Japan Study on East Asia's Future Economy and was the Director of the World Development Report 1999/2000, Entering the 21st Century.