Download or read book Poverty and Undernutrition in Indonesia during the 1980s written by Martin Ravallion and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of sustained growth in average real consumption, a modest improvement in overall equity, and gains to the rural sector -- particularly the poorest of the poor -- poverty and undernutrition continued to be alleviated during Indonesia's recent period of macroeconomic adjustment.
Download or read book Including the Poor written by Michael Lipton and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the role of government policy in economic development in the Republic of Korea. The Republic of Korea has achieved economic success on many fronts. Real GNP has tripled every decade since the 1960s. A dynamic and flexible manufacturing sector now dominates the economy. The benefits of growth have been widely distributed, with a sharp decrease in poverty. This study, like others in the series, seeks to draw lessons from such success and to identify and analyze the policies behind this strong economic performance. Koreas development strategy and macroeconomic performance are outlined in Part I. Several factors are seen to underlie strong growth, including the maintenance of a stable macroenvironment, flexible and pragmatic policies, and investment in infrastructure and human capital. Part II assesses the role played by industrial policy since 1961. Particular attention is given to the Heavy and Chemical Industry (HCI) drive, launched in 1973 to diversify and upgrade Koreas industrial sector. The authors note that while the HCI has been largely successful, it also has been very costly, particularly to the financial sector. Part III outlines the role of institutions and the close relationships among the government, the bureaucracy, and business. The key to Koreas rapid development, according to the authors, was the governments commitment to growth and its early focus on equity and wide distribution of the gains from growth. The authors also laud the efficiency and effectiveness of Koreas public and private sector institutions, which they see as models for all developing nations.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Poverty written by Ravi Kanbur and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: August 1995 - In urban areas of Côte d'Ivoire, human capital is the endowment that best explains welfare changes over time. In rural areas, physical capital - especially the amount of land and farm equipment owned - matters most. Empirical investigations of poverty in developing countries tend to focus on the incidence of poverty at a particular point in time. If the incidence of poverty increases, however, there is no information about how many new poor have joined the existing poor and how many people have escaped poverty. Yet this distinction is of crucial policy importance. The chronically poor may need programs to enhance their human and physical capital endowments. Invalids and the very old may need permanent (targeted) transfers. The temporarily poor, on the other hand, may best be helped with programs that complement their own resources and help them bridge a difficult period. Results from analyses of panel surveys show significant mobility into and out of poverty and reveal a dynamism of the poor that policy should stimulate. Understanding what separates chronic from temporary poverty requires knowing which characteristics differentiate those who escape poverty from those who don't. In earlier work, Grootaert, Kanbur, and Oh found that region of residence and socioeconomic status were important factors. In this paper they investigate the role of other household characteristics, especially such asset endowments as human and physical capital, in the case of Côte d'Ivoire. In urban areas of Côte d'Ivoire, human capital is the most important endowment explaining welfare changes over time. Households with well-educated members suffered less loss of welfare than other households. What seems to have mattered, though, is the skills learned through education, not the diplomas obtained. Diplomas may even have worked against some households in having oriented workers too much toward a formal labor market in a time when employment growth came almost entirely from small enterprises. In rural areas, physical capital - especially the amount of land and farm equipment owned - mattered most. Smallholders were more likely to suffer welfare declines. Households with diversified sources of income managed better, especially if they had an important source of nonfarm income. In both rural and urban areas, larger households suffered greater declines in welfare and households that got larger were unable to increase income enough to maintain their former welfare level. Households whose heads worked in the public sector maintained welfare better than other households, a finding that confirms earlier observations. The results also suggest that government policies toward certain regions or types of household can outweigh the effects of household endownments. Surprisingly, migrant non-Ivorian households tended to be better at preventing welfare losses than Ivorian households, while households headed by women did better than those headed by men (after controlling for differences in or changes in endowment). The implications for policymakers? First, education is associated with higher welfare levels and helps people cope better with economic decline. Second, targeting the social safety net to larger households - possibly through the schools, to reach children - is justified in periods of decline. Third, smallholders might be targeted in rural areas, and ways found to encourage diversification of income there. This paper - a joint product of the Social Policy and Resettlement Division, Environment Department, and the Africa Regional Office, Office of the Chief Economist - is the result of a research project on The Dynamics of Poverty: Why Some People Escape Poverty and Others Don't, A Panel Analysis for Côte d'Ivoire (RPO 678-70).
Download or read book Adjustment and Poverty written by Frances Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade has bought sharp adjustments and rising poverty to much of the developing world. The experiences of Africa and Latin America are contrasted with areas which were able to combine adjustment with protecting the poor.
Download or read book On the Accuracy of Economic Observations written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book India in a Globalising World written by Rokkam Radhakrishna and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chennamaneni H. Hanumantha Rao, b. 1929, Indian economist; revised version of papers presented at a seminar held at Hyderabad, during 16-17 November 2004.
Download or read book Is Undernutrition Responsive to Changes in Incomes written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Growth and Rural Poverty written by Vinita Kumar and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution of Povetry and Welfare in Nigeria 1985 92 written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inequality Globalization and World Politics written by Andrew Hurrell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-04-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inequality is becoming an urgent issue of world politics at the end of the twentieth century. Globalization is not only exacerbating the gap between rich and poor in the world but is also further dividing those states and peoples that have political power and influence from those without. While the powerful shape more `global' rules and norms about investment, military security, environmental and social policy and the like, the less powerful are becoming `rule-takers', often of rules or norms they cannot or will not enforce. The consequences for world politics are profound. The evidence presented in Inequality, Globalization, and World Politics suggests that globalization is creating sharper, more urgent problems for states and international institutions to deal with. Yet at the same time, investigations into eight core areas of world politics suggest that growing inequality is reducing the capacity of governments and existing international organizations to manage these problems effectively. The eight areas surveyed include: international order, international law, welfare and social policy, global justice, regionalism and multilateralism, environmental protection, gender equality, military power, and security.
Download or read book How Serious is the Neglect of Intra household Inequality written by Lawrence James Haddad and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Method for Macroeconomic Consistency in Current and Constant Prices written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Poverty Estimates written by Ms.Shatakshee Dhongde and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using different data sources, parametric and nonparametric estimation methods, and multiple poverty lines. Our results indicate that estimates of global poverty vary significantly when they are based alternately on data from household surveys versus national accounts but are relatively consistent across different estimation methods. The decline in poverty over the past decade is found to be robust across methodological choices.
Download or read book Development Policy in East Asia written by Romeo M. Bautista and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1992 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth performance of East Asia's market economics over the two-and-half decades has been one of unparalleled success. In this regional comparative study of country experiences, the author demonstrates the considerable scope for complementarity between economic growth and poverty alleviation in the development process. Government policies are shown to have been a major determinant of the development path for the East Asian countries, including the outcomes in income growth and distribution. The study sheds light on the types of policies conducive to both economic growth and poverty reeducation, and provides important lessons for the other developing countries.
Download or read book Irreversibility Uncertainty and Investment written by Robert S. Pindyck and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irreversible investment is especially sensitive to such risk factors as volatile exchange rates and uncertainty about tariff structures and future cash flows. If the goal of macroeconomic policy is to stimulate investment, stability and credibility may be more important than tax incentives or interest rates.
Download or read book Asian Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing water for the poor proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Pro Poor Intervention Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture in Asia Bangladesh China India Indonesia Pakistan and Vietnam Colombo 9 10 August 2001 written by Hussain, I. and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2001-08-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented at the Workshop.
