Download or read book The Sectoral Structure of Poverty During an Adjustment Period written by Monika Huppi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Favorable initial conditions, a timely adjustment program, and associated gains to the rural sector allowed Indonesia to maintain the momentum of its progress in poverty alleviation during the difficult 1980s.
Download or read book Poverty and Policy written by Michael Lipton and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Globalization and Poverty written by Ann Harrison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book Dictators Democrats and Development in Southeast Asia written by Michael T. Rock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An examination of how dictators and democrats in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand built and sustained pro-growth political coalitions"--
Download or read book Small and Medium Enterprises in Asian Pacific Countries Roles and issues written by Moha Asri Hj. Abdullah and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books provides an overall account of small and medium enterprises in selected Asia-Pacific countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, Philippines, China, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Canada. All of these countries have given high policy agenda on the development of small and medium enterprises since SMEs contribute significantly to the respective national economic development. The books therefore provides various experiences on SMEs, issues and challenges, incentive and policies adopted by various governments and, more significantly, prospects for growth and development potential of SMEs in the new millennium.
Download or read book The Transition to Export led Growth in South Korea 1954 66 written by Stephan Haggard and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Korea's transition to export- led growth was a product of the interplay of four factors: pressure from the United States, strong executive power, bureaucratic reform, and a restructuring of the relations between the state and business.
Download or read book Health and Development written by Nancy Birdsall and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conclusions of past research and priorities for future research on the relationship between health and economic development: the effects of development on health and the effects of health on development.
Download or read book Pricing Average Price Options for the 1990 Mexican and Venezuelan Recapture Clauses written by Stijn Claessens and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pricing models are developed to value the recapture clauses in the 1990 Mexican and Venezuelan debt restructuring agreements. The current values of the recapture clauses are less than one- quarter of the maximum contractually possible and decrease as the standard deviation of the oil price increases.
Download or read book Money Inflation and Deficit in Egypt written by Marcelo Giugale and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Firms Responses to Relative Price Changes in C te D Ivoire written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firms' in Cote d'Ivoire would sell more to the foreign market when it is more profitable to do so. Exports would respond positively to increases in export prices and negatively to increases in import prices.
Download or read book Indonesian Labour in Transition written by Chris Manning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers labour markets in Indonesia under Soeharto's New Order government.
Download or read book Venture Capital Operations and Their Potential Role in LDC Markets written by Silvia B. Sagari and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venture capital may play an important role in supporting entrepreneurial development and small business growth. But institutional arrangements and instruments must be carefully chosen, taking into account the lessons from countries where venture capital has been a reality now for a few years. The Bank's role should be largely to disseminate these lessons.
Download or read book Australia s Antidumping Experience written by Gary Banks and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian experience suggests that antidumping is, at heart, about safeguarding the interests of particular industries. As long as this is true, there will always be tension between antidumping policy and the broader interests of the national economy and the world trading systems.
Download or read book How Support Services Can Expand Manufactured Exports written by Donald B. Keesing and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper offers proposals to make support services more effective through outside assistance. Especially recommended are packages of assistance and promotion built around grant funds that pay firms half the cost of commercial service suppliers, such as consultants, and/or half of their initial marketing expenses.
Download or read book Does high technology matter an application to United States regional growth written by Andrea Boltho and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
