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Community Development & Poverty Reduction

Including the excluded (pdf 60kb)

This article examines the strategies employed to target the poor and provides an analysis of how they differ, depending on the mandate and the development paradigm of the provider.

It also examines the challenge of balancing broader outreach to the poor with self-sufficiency of the microenterprises supported by development organisations.

 

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