Donor trends in overall Policy
Poverty reduction is more often rhetoric and than reality:
- lack of attention to structural causes:
An effective anti-poverty approach -- as opposed to and effective aid approach -- demand that poverty be addressed even in the most difficult situations, e.g., supporting local agents.
Aid can be a catalyst but its role is always going to be subsidiary to the major influences on poverty, which include government policy, economic and social stability, global trade and financial conditions as well as the efforts of the people themselves