حول تقييم سياسات و إستراتيجيات الإقلال من الفقر في عينة من الدول العربية : استعراض انتقائي

Abstract EN

The paper proposes an analytical framework, based on the standard poverty measures, for the evaluation of poverty reduction policies and strategies in a sample of Arab countries for which relevant data is available.

The paper briefly reviews the recent new orientation for the design of poverty reduction policies and strategics in addition to recent results on the evaluation of Arab social safety nets.

The paper notes in this respect that the sample of Arab countries under study (Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Mauritania) have opted for extending their social safety nets as an approach to poverty reduction in the context of adjustment programs.

In this respect the paper argues that the observed increase in poverty, both its spread and depth, in Jordan, Algeria and Egypt (representing 70% of the population of the sample), could be understood as reflecting the neutralization of the work of the social safety nets in these countries as a result of the collapse of the growth process.