New Directions Volume 15 | Issue 3 Article 7 7-1-1988 New Approaches To Development Moreen A. Qureshi Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/newdirections Recommended Citation Qureshi, Moreen A. (1988) "New Approaches To Development," New Directions: Vol. 15: Iss. 3, Article 7. Available at: http://dh.howard.edu/newdirections/vol15/iss3/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Howard @ Howard University. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Directions by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Qureshi: New Approaches To Development New Approaches To Development By Moeen A. Qureshi impediments to development. Increasingly, maintaining past levels of expenditure on ome developing countries have sub these adjustment efforts include measures poverty programs, some want to channel stantially reduced poverty within to protect the efforts of poor people to meet the resources through NGOs to enhance Stheir borders, and virtually all coun their basic needs. cost-effectiveness. tries have at least made gains in education The third necessary change is to make Some NGOs in the developing countries and health for poor people. But the 1980s programs which are supposed to help the are strengthening their capacity to analyze have been a terribly difficult decade for the poor become more effective. issues of economic policy and to speak for developing world, and tens of millions of All three of these changes call for fresh the poor in public debate. And the re poor people have grown poorer. commitment and creative approaches, in surgence of democracy in parts of the Adverse conditions in the global econ cluding new forms of partnership between developing world has made some govern omy have slowed growth in even the most governmental institutions and the vigorous ments more responsive.