Rural Poverty Alleviation: International Development Perspectives Book

	List of contributors
	Preface
	Introduction: Poverty re-discovered	1
Ch. 1	Crushing rural poverty: Experiences of the Commonwealth	5
Ch. 2	Overcoming rural poverty - thirty years of World Food Programme experience	25
Ch. 3	Poverty alleviation approached of an international financial institution: policy and practice	43
Ch. 4	Public action, poverty and development in a gender-aware analysis	59
Ch. 5	Targeting foodgrains to the rural poor: a micro level study of India	83
Ch. 6	Co-operatives, credit and the rural poor: private interest, public choice and collective action in Sri Lanka	99
Ch. 7	Targeting without infrastructure: the World Bank's War Widows Rehabilitation Project, Luwero District, Uganda	119
Ch. 8	Rural poverty alleviation in Bangladesh: an overview of programmes	131
Ch. 9	Criteria for poverty focused rural mechanisation research and development (R & D)	143