Development and Poverty Reduction: A Global Comparative Perspective (China Policy Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367262290 ISBN 13: 9780367262297

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Although the absolute number of poor people in the world has declined significantly in recent decades, poverty reduction continues to be a very important issue. There still are very large numbers of poor people, relative poverty is an increasingly concerning problem, and progress on poverty reduction varies enormously from one part of the world to another. Factors contributing to poverty reduction include economic growth, economic integration, and specific poverty-reduction programs, which are often initiated by Western countries. This book considers poverty reduction from a global perspective. Development and Poverty Reduction looks at a wide range of specific subjects, across all continents. It highlights in particular how the issues are perceived from a non-Western perspective and especially how the rise of China is both having a profound impact on poverty reduction globally and also changing the overall way in which development and poverty reduction are approached.

Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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About the Author

Yongnian Zheng is Professor and Director of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.

Jiwei Qian is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367262290
• ISBN 13: 9780367262297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Zheng Yongnian, Qian Jiwei