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Poverty monitoring and alleviation in East Asia / Kwong-leung Tang and Chack-kie Wong, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--East Asia.
- Poverty.
- Income distribution--East Asia.
- Income distribution.
- Equality--East Asia.
- Equality.
- East Asia--Social policy.
- East Asia.
- East Asia--Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book deals with poverty monitoring and alleviation in East Asia. This is currently an area of great interest to scholars, activists, policy-makers and the public. Prior to the onset of the Asian financial crisis in 1997, many were optimistic that the problem of poverty would be tempered in the short run. They predicted the crisis would be short-lived and the whole region would get back on track towards rapid economic development. Yet, the impacts of the crisis endure and in many of East Asian countries, poverty, along with income inequality, has emerged as a serious social problem. In this book, the authors emphasise an important role for the state in poverty monitoring and alleviation efforts, contrary to the prevalent belief in small government and unbridled economic growth as a solution to poverty.
- Contents:
- Poverty monitoring and alleviation in East Asia : an overview / Kwong-leung Tang and Chack-kie Wong
- Poverty and anti-poverty policies in urban China / Xinping Guan
- Poverty monitoring and alleviation : the case of Taiwan / Kate Yeong-Tsyr Wang
- Poverty, vulnerability and the expansion of disciplinary welfare in Hong Kong / Sammy Chiu
- Poverty monitoring and alleviation in Singapore / Mui Teng Yap
- Poverty and anti-poverty measures in South Korea / Sunwoo Lee and Meegon Kim
- Poverty monitoring and alleviation in Japan / Yuki Sekine
- Poverty alleviation : a rights-based approach / Glenn Drover
- The ILO's approach to poverty alleviation / Kwong-leung Tang
- Poverty and the social development approach / James Midgley
- An institutional analysis of poverty / Chack-kie Wong
- Global social protests : an answer to world poverty? / Arlene Herman and Kwong-leung Tang.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61470-602-6
- OCLC:
- 923663277
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