How much would poor nations need to invest to eliminate poverty, get all children in school and provide adequate basic health care for all? Can they afford it? Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East provides some clear answers to these questions. The contributors assess feasible financing strategies underpinning actions to enhance human development in pursuance of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The contributors analyse these strategies in the context of broader concerns of economic development in nine countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The assessments stress the importance of redesigning macroeconomic policies so as to make these more supportive of long-term economic growth and employment creation, while ensuring sufficient investments in human development in order to end poverty and overcome deep-rooted inequalities.

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Rob Vos is Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations.

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Preface

About the Editors

About other Contributors

Financing Options and Challenges to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Africa, Asia and the Middle East; Marco V. Sánchez, Rob Vos, Keiji Inoue, and Diyora Kabulova

Egypt; Motaz Khorshid, Ahmed Kamaly, Heba El-Laithy and Sohair Abou El-Enein

Kyrgyzstan; Roman Mogilevsky and Anara Omorova

Philippines; Roehlano M. Briones, Francis Quimba, Myrna Asuncion, Jonathan B. Bungcayao, Joseph B. Paglingayen and Ivee Libunao

Senegal; Abdoulaye Diagne, François Joseph Cabral, Anne-Sophie Robilliard and Fatou Cissé

South Africa; Marna Kearney and Ayodele Odusola

Tunisia; Marco V. Sánchez and Mohammed Chemingui

Uganda; John Mary Matovu, Evarist Twimukye, Albert Musisi and Sebastian Levine

Uzbekistan; Ulugbek Olimov and Yadgar Fayzullaev

Yemen; Martín Cicowiez and Hans Lofgren

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