Nationalising the anti-poverty agenda

Although the return in the 1990s of the issue of poverty reduction to the a genda of international organisations is very welcome, an important obstacle to further progress remains To date the antipoverty agenda in del eloping countries has been largely externally driven, whereas previous successful a nti-poverty strategies have been implemented through internal political dyn amics. This article explores the implications of this difficulty, including the suggestion that good research on the politics of pro-poor policies may be more valuable in the next few rears than further refinements of the eco nomic measures of the incidence of poverty.