Reducing Poverty in Asia: Emerging Issues in Growth, Targeting, and Measurement - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845421507 ISBN 13: 9781845421502

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

In this book, a group of distinguished authors addresses three broad questions: what broad strategies and macroeconomic policies best support poverty reduction efforts in Asia; what role should targeted antipoverty interventions play, and how should such interventions be designed; and how is poverty measured, what new approaches are needed, and how does measurement affect our understanding of poverty. Each of these three broad themes is also considered together in chapters examining the poverty situations in a number of countries in Asia and the Pacific.

The book represents a major scholarly contribution of the Asian Development Bank to the literature on poverty in the region it serves. The organization adopted poverty reduction as the principal objective of its lending in 1999. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of development economics and Asian studies, and will be useful reading for policymakers and development practitioners working in national, international or nongovernmental organizations.

A Joint Publication with the Asian Development Bank

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Edited by Christopher M. Edmonds, Fellow, Research Department, East–West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845421507
• ISBN 13: 9781845421502
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Edmonds Christopher M.