Governance and Poverty Alleviation in the Muslim World

This chapter examines good governance because it is indispensable approach to poverty alleviation and the entire sustainable livelihood process. Good governance becomes even more crucial in ensuring efficient resource utilisation, which is essential for socio-economic development in a country. The components of good governance looked at in this chapter include political instability, institutional support or commitment to poverty reduction, i.e. planning, implementation and delivery. The authors have attempted an impact assessment of sustainable livelihoods and poverty reduction programmes in some selected countries. Finally, constraints and weaknesses of the programmes have been examined.