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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Main Authors:	Belshaw, Deryke, Calderisi, Robert, Sugden, Chris
Format:	Publication
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Irvine, CA: Regnum Books International and the World Bank 2013
Subjects:	PARTNERSHIPS POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES CONFLICT PREVENTION POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION CORRUPTION CHRISTIANITY & ECONOMICS GENDER ANALYSIS WOMEN'S HEALTH WOMEN'S EDUCATION ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION MICROCREDITS MICROFINANCE PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENTS CHURCHES SPIRITUALITY PARTNERSHIPS ABSOLUTE POVERTY ACCOUNTABILITY AGED CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL FORMATION CAPITAL MARKETS CITIZENS CIVIC EDUCATION CIVIL SOCIETY CLIMATE CLINICS COMMODITIES COMMUNITY LEADERS CONSULTATIVE PROCESS DEBT DEBT RELIEF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT WORK DIRECT IMPACT DISCRIMINATION DOMESTIC WATER ECONOMIC DECLINE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PROBLEMS ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC SITUATION ECONOMICS EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EXERCISES EXPLOITATION FAMILIES FINANCIAL GRANTS GENDER TRAINING GIRLS GOOD GOVERNANCE HEALTH CARE HEALTH EDUCATION HEALTH SERVICES HOSPITALS HUMAN CAPITAL IMMUNODEFICIENCY INCOME GENERATION INEQUALITY INFORMAL SECTOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL LEADERSHIP TRAINING LITERACY RATES LIVING STANDARDS MALNUTRITION MANAGERS MEDICAL CARE MEDICAL SERVICES MORTALITY NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POLICY NON- GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS PARENTS PARTNERSHIP POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ISSUES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIORITY AREAS PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC POLICY QUALITY OF LIFE RAISING INCOME REDUCING POVERTY RELATIVE POVERTY RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS RURAL AREAS RURAL COMMUNITIES SAPS SAVINGS SCHOOL FEES SCHOOLS SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL SERVICES STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRANSPARENCY VIOLENCE VULNERABLE GROUPS WATER SUPPLY YOUNG PEOPLE YOUTH
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spelling	okr-10986-140052017-12-14T04:39:08Z Faith in Development : Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa Belshaw, Deryke Calderisi, Robert Sugden, Chris Belshaw, Deryke Calderisi, Robert Sugden, Chris PARTNERSHIPS POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES CONFLICT PREVENTION POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION CORRUPTION CHRISTIANITY & ECONOMICS GENDER ANALYSIS WOMEN'S HEALTH WOMEN'S EDUCATION ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION MICROCREDITS MICROFINANCE PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENTS CHURCHES SPIRITUALITY PARTNERSHIPS ABSOLUTE POVERTY ACCOUNTABILITY AGED CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL FORMATION CAPITAL MARKETS CITIZENS CIVIC EDUCATION CIVIL SOCIETY CLIMATE CLINICS COMMODITIES COMMUNITY LEADERS CONSULTATIVE PROCESS CORRUPTION DEBT DEBT RELIEF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT WORK DIRECT IMPACT DISCRIMINATION DOMESTIC WATER ECONOMIC DECLINE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PROBLEMS ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC SITUATION ECONOMICS EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EXERCISES EXPLOITATION FAMILIES FINANCIAL GRANTS GENDER TRAINING GIRLS GOOD GOVERNANCE HEALTH CARE HEALTH EDUCATION HEALTH SERVICES HOSPITALS HUMAN CAPITAL IMMUNODEFICIENCY INCOME GENERATION INEQUALITY INFORMAL SECTOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL LEADERSHIP TRAINING LITERACY RATES LIVING STANDARDS MALNUTRITION MANAGERS MEDICAL CARE MEDICAL SERVICES MORTALITY NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POLICY NON- GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS PARENTS PARTNERSHIP POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ISSUES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIORITY AREAS PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC POLICY QUALITY OF LIFE RAISING INCOME REDUCING POVERTY RELATIVE POVERTY RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS RURAL AREAS RURAL COMMUNITIES SAPS SAVINGS SCHOOL FEES SCHOOLS SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL SERVICES STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRANSPARENCY VIOLENCE VULNERABLE GROUPS WATER SUPPLY YOUNG PEOPLE YOUTH 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. 2013-06-19T16:15:34Z 2013-06-19T16:15:34Z 2001-08 0-8213-4848-5 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14005 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo Regnum Books International Irvine, CA: Regnum Books International and the World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication Africa Africa
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topic	PARTNERSHIPS POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES CONFLICT PREVENTION POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION CORRUPTION CHRISTIANITY & ECONOMICS GENDER ANALYSIS WOMEN'S HEALTH WOMEN'S EDUCATION ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION MICROCREDITS MICROFINANCE PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENTS CHURCHES SPIRITUALITY PARTNERSHIPS ABSOLUTE POVERTY ACCOUNTABILITY AGED CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL FORMATION CAPITAL MARKETS CITIZENS CIVIC EDUCATION CIVIL SOCIETY CLIMATE CLINICS COMMODITIES COMMUNITY LEADERS CONSULTATIVE PROCESS CORRUPTION DEBT DEBT RELIEF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT WORK DIRECT IMPACT DISCRIMINATION DOMESTIC WATER ECONOMIC DECLINE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PROBLEMS ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC SITUATION ECONOMICS EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EXERCISES EXPLOITATION FAMILIES FINANCIAL GRANTS GENDER TRAINING GIRLS GOOD GOVERNANCE HEALTH CARE HEALTH EDUCATION HEALTH SERVICES HOSPITALS HUMAN CAPITAL IMMUNODEFICIENCY INCOME GENERATION INEQUALITY INFORMAL SECTOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL LEADERSHIP TRAINING LITERACY RATES LIVING STANDARDS MALNUTRITION MANAGERS MEDICAL CARE MEDICAL SERVICES MORTALITY NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POLICY NON- GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS PARENTS PARTNERSHIP POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ISSUES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIORITY AREAS PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC POLICY QUALITY OF LIFE RAISING INCOME REDUCING POVERTY RELATIVE POVERTY RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS RURAL AREAS RURAL COMMUNITIES SAPS SAVINGS SCHOOL FEES SCHOOLS SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL SERVICES STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRANSPARENCY VIOLENCE VULNERABLE GROUPS WATER SUPPLY YOUNG PEOPLE YOUTH
spellingShingle	PARTNERSHIPS POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES CONFLICT PREVENTION POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION CORRUPTION CHRISTIANITY & ECONOMICS GENDER ANALYSIS WOMEN'S HEALTH WOMEN'S EDUCATION ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION MICROCREDITS MICROFINANCE PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENTS CHURCHES SPIRITUALITY PARTNERSHIPS ABSOLUTE POVERTY ACCOUNTABILITY AGED CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL FORMATION CAPITAL MARKETS CITIZENS CIVIC EDUCATION CIVIL SOCIETY CLIMATE CLINICS COMMODITIES COMMUNITY LEADERS CONSULTATIVE PROCESS CORRUPTION DEBT DEBT RELIEF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT WORK DIRECT IMPACT DISCRIMINATION DOMESTIC WATER ECONOMIC DECLINE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PROBLEMS ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC SITUATION ECONOMICS EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EXERCISES EXPLOITATION FAMILIES FINANCIAL GRANTS GENDER TRAINING GIRLS GOOD GOVERNANCE HEALTH CARE HEALTH EDUCATION HEALTH SERVICES HOSPITALS HUMAN CAPITAL IMMUNODEFICIENCY INCOME GENERATION INEQUALITY INFORMAL SECTOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL LEADERSHIP TRAINING LITERACY RATES LIVING STANDARDS MALNUTRITION MANAGERS MEDICAL CARE MEDICAL SERVICES MORTALITY NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POLICY NON- GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS PARENTS PARTNERSHIP POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ISSUES POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIORITY AREAS PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC POLICY QUALITY OF LIFE RAISING INCOME REDUCING POVERTY RELATIVE POVERTY RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS RURAL AREAS RURAL COMMUNITIES SAPS SAVINGS SCHOOL FEES SCHOOLS SERVICE DELIVERY SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL SERVICES STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRANSPARENCY VIOLENCE VULNERABLE GROUPS WATER SUPPLY YOUNG PEOPLE YOUTH Belshaw, Deryke Calderisi, Robert Sugden, Chris Faith in Development : Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa
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description	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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author	Belshaw, Deryke Calderisi, Robert Sugden, Chris
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title	Faith in Development : Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa
title_short	Faith in Development : Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa
title_full	Faith in Development : Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa
title_fullStr	Faith in Development : Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Faith in Development : Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa
title_sort	faith in development : partnership between the world bank and the churches of africa
publisher	Irvine, CA: Regnum Books International and the World Bank
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Faith in Development : Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa

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