Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia
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This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable measures. Asia is facing many challenges arising from population growth, rapid urbanization, provision of services, climate change and the need to redress declining growth after the global financial crisis. This book examines poverty and related issues and aims to advance the development of new tools and measurement of multidimensional poverty and poverty reduction policy analysis. The book covers a wide range of issues, including determinants and causes of poverty and its changes; consequences and impacts of poverty on human capital formation, growth and consumption; assessment of poverty strategies and policies; the role of government, NGOs and other institutions in poverty reduction; rural-urban migration and poverty; vulnerability to poverty; breakdown of poverty intochronic and transitory components; and a comparative study on poverty issues in Asia and other regions. The book will appeal to all those interested in economic development, resources, policies and economic welfare and growth.
This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable measures. Asia is facing many challenges arising from population growth, rapid urbanization, provision of services, climate change and the need to redress declining growth after the global financial crisis. This book examines poverty and related issues and aims to advance the development of new tools and measurement of multidimensional poverty and poverty reduction policy analysis. The book covers a wide range of issues, including determinants and causes of poverty and its changes; consequences and impacts of poverty on human capital formation, growth and consumption; assessment of poverty strategies and policies; the role of government, NGOs and other institutions in poverty reduction; rural-urban migration and poverty; vulnerability to poverty; breakdown of poverty intochronic and transitory components; and a comparative study on poverty issues in Asia and other regions. The book will appeal to all those interested in economic development, resources, policies and economic welfare and growth.
Contains 14 papers covering the theoretical, methodological, empirical and policy aspects of poverty in developing Asia Advances new developmental tools and measurements of multidimensional poverty and poverty reduction policy analysis Covers poverty-alleviation related areas such as microfinance, climate change, disaster management, urban and rural poverty reduction policies and sustainability issues Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Almas Heshmati
Themen in »Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia«
'RAY' Housing Scheme in India Agricultural Production and Poverty in India Climate Change and Poverty in Bangladesh Climate Change and Poverty in India Climate Change, Disaster Management and Poverty Reduction Crop Diversification and Poverty in Rural India Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions in Asia Disaster management and poverty in Bangladesh Economic class Segregation in Developing Asia Economic class Segregation in the Pacific Foreign Direct Investment and Poverty in Southeast Foreign labour migration in Nepal Housing Poverty in Urban India Inequality in Urban India Non-Income Dimensions and Poverty in India