Indigenous peoples, poverty, and development / edited by Gillette H. Hall, Harry Anthony Patrinos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Gillette, 1962- editor.

Patrinos, Harry Anthony, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Economic conditions.

Indigenous peoples--Government relations.

Poverty--Cross-cultural studies.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 406 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Indigenous Peoples, Poverty, & Development

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book documents poverty systematically for the world's indigenous peoples in developing regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The volume compiles results for roughly 85 percent of the world's indigenous peoples. It draws on nationally representative data to compare trends in countries' poverty rates and other social indicators with those for indigenous sub-populations and provides comparable data for a wide range of countries all over the world. It estimates global poverty numbers and analyzes other important development indicators, such as schooling, health and social protection. Provocatively, the results show a marked difference in results across regions, with rapid poverty reduction among indigenous (and non-indigenous) populations in Asia contrasting with relative stagnation - and in some cases falling back - in Latin America and Africa.

Contents:

Introduction / Gillette H. Hall and Harry Anthony Patrinos

Indigenous peoples and development goals : a global snapshot / Kevin Alan David Macdonald

Becoming indigenous : identity and heterogeneity in a global movement / Jerome M. Levi and Biorn Maybury-Lewis

Indigenous peoples in Central Africa : the case of the Pygmies / Quentin Wodon, Prospere Backiny-Yetna, and Arbi Ben-Achour

China : a case study in rapid poverty reduction / Emily Hannum and Meiyan Wang

India : the scheduled tribes / Maitreyi Bordia Das [and others]

Laos : ethnolinguistic diversity and disadvantage / Elizabeth M. King and Dominique van de Walle

Vietnam : a widening poverty gap for ethnic minorities / Hai-Ahn Dang

Latin America / Gillette H. Hall and Harry Anthony Patrinos

Conclusion / Gillette H. Hall and Harry Anthony Patrinos.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-36633-5

1-107-23132-9

1-280-87801-0

1-139-37892-9

9786613719324

1-139-10572-8

1-139-37606-3

1-139-38035-4

1-139-37207-6

1-139-37749-3

OCLC:

794731521