The Asian 'poverty miracle' impressive accomplishments or incomplete achievements
Following rapid economic growth in recent decades, Asia and the Pacific experienced an impressive reduction in extreme poverty, but this drop was not uniform and achievements are still incomplete. Vulnerability to natural disasters, the increasing impact of climate change and economic crises should...
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Northampton, MA
Edward Elgar Pub.
2016, c. 2016
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| Series: | ADBI series on Asian economic integration and cooperation
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Jacques Silber
- 3. Concepts and measurement of vulnerability to poverty and other issues: a review of literature / Tomoki Fujii
- 4. Measuring the impact of vulnerability on the number of poor: a new methodology with empirical illustrations / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Jacques Silber, and Guanghua Wan
- 5. Climate change and vulnerability to poverty: an empirical investigation in rural Indonesia / Tomoki Fujii
- 6. Measuring multidimensional poverty in three Southeast Asian countries using ordinal variables / Valérie Bérenger
- 7. Poverty and nutrition: a case study of rural households in Thailand and Viet Nam / Hermann Waibel and Lena Hohfeld
- 8. Poverty and ethnicity in Asi