Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia / edited by Almas Heshmati, Esfandiar Maasoumi, Guanghua Wan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heshmati, Almas, Editor.

Contributor:

Heshmati, Almas., Editor.

Maasoumi, Esfandiar., Editor.

Wan, Guanghua., Editor.

Series:

Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being, 2364-107X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Development economics.

Economic policy.

Social policy.

Climatic changes.

Development Economics.

Economic Policy.

Social Policy.

Climate Change Management and Policy.

Local Subjects:

Development Economics.

Economic Policy.

Social Policy.

Climate Change Management and Policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) : Illustrations, charts

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 into chronic 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.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary to Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

Part One: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance

Chapter 2: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance: Bangladesh Evidence

Chapter 3: Does Microcredit Help the Poor and Financially Marginalized Communities? Experience of Pakistan

Part Two: Climate Change, Disaster Management and Poverty Reduction

Chapter 4: Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Poverty in India

Part Three: Urban Poverty Reduction Policies

Chapter 5: Urban Poverty in Developing Asia—Dichotomy between the Income and Non-Income Dimensions: Are We Not Grossly Underestimating Its Incidence?

Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India

Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies

Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India

Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions

Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach

Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India

Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States?

Part Six: Sustainability in Poverty Reduction

Chapter 12: The Significance of Foreign Labour Migration and Land for Poverty Reduction in Nepal

Chapter 13: Does Poverty Alone Keep Children Out of School? The Case of Children under Kinship Care in the Philippines

Part Seven: Alleviation of Poverty in Asia and the Pacific

Chapter 14: Economic Class and Labour Market Segregation: Poor and Middle Class Workers in Developing Asia and the Pacific

Chapter 15: Foreign Direct Investment and the Poverty Reduction Nexus in Southeast Asia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

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ISBN:

9789812874207 (PDF)

OCLC:

907048864