Faith in Development : Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa
Most of Africa's poor are deeply religious. Not only are faith communities among the poor, in many cases they are the poor. Like other faith communities, the Christian Church in Africa has grown impressively. Its development role must be taken...
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| Format: | Publication |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Irvine, CA: Regnum Books International and the World Bank
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14005 |
| Summary: | Most of Africa's poor are deeply
religious. Not only are faith communities among the poor, in
many cases they are the poor. Like other faith communities,
the Christian Church in Africa has grown impressively. Its
development role must be taken seriously, not just because
it is trusted and broad-based within Africa, but also
because it is a part of a global movement capable of
improving the lives of the poor. The papers in this report
were presented at the Churches of Africa/World Bank
Conference on Alleviating Poverty in Africa, which was held
in Nairobi, Kenya, in March 2000. Representatives of African
churches came together with senior staff at the World Bank
for discussions on a topic of mutual and urgent concern:
alleviating poverty in Africa. Participants at the
conference expressed a wide range of viewpoints, including
treating people as subjects rather than objects, promoting
investment and industrialization through human capital
formation, listening to the "voices of the poor,"
recapturing lost market shares in promary commodity markets,
the ideal patterns of church development practice, gender
inequality, enterprise solutions for addressing poverty, and
the church's role in promoting social justice and as
well as income generation and service delivery. |
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