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Author : Jocelyn A. Songco
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Desarrollo rural - Vietnam
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Jocelyn A. Songco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1290704360
What are the linkages between rural infrastructure investments and household welfare? In the past most of the evaluations to assess the effectiveness of a project focused on physical outputs and success of project implementation. In recent years, more attention has been given to the impact of investments, particularly its effect on the poor, both in economic and noneconomic terms. Songco presents findings from a survey of the existing literature on such impacts.Although evidence exists for improved household welfare from rural infrastructure investment, little evidence was found of studies that provided concrete linkages between specific investments in rural infrastructure and increased welfare of the rural poor. This is due in part to the complexity, and oftentimes the concurrent nature of interventions, that make attributing welfare improvements to a particular project virtually impossible.The evidence is presented in this three-part paper. Part I gives examples of past and current attempts to assess the impact of rural infrastructure projects and provides suggestions for future evaluations. Part II discusses in detail some observed economic and noneconomic impacts on the poor from different rural infrastructure interventions. Part III presents lessons learned from the literature on how to maximize the impact of rural infrastructure interventions on household welfare. Specific project and country examples from the literature and new data from a recent qualitative study in Vietnam are presented as evidence for and illustration of key ideas and issues.This paper - a product of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region - is part of a larger effort in the region to evaluate the welfare impact of investments. The author may be contacted at [email protected].
Author : Shenggen Fan,Connie Chan-Kang
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896291416
Since 1985, the Chinese government has given high priority to building roads, particularly high-quality roads that connect industrial centers. This report evaluates the contribution roads have made to poverty reduction and economic growth in China over the last two decades. It disaggregates road infrastructure into different classes to account for differences in their quality, and then estimates the impact of road investments on overall economic growth, agricultural growth, urban growth, urban poverty reduction, and rural poverty reduction. The report makes the case for a greater focus on low-quality and rural roads in future infrastructure investment strategies in China. It does so by showing how investing in low-quality and rural roads will generate larger marginal returns, raise more people out of poverty per yuan invested, and reduce regional development disparity more sharply than investing in high-quality roads. The study's findings will have considerable implications for China's infrastructure policy
Author : Hemamala Hettige
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Economic development projects
ISBN : CORNELL:31924101483810
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251055092
This publication is part of a three-volume study on lessons learned and implications for agriculture and food security in the context of rapid growth in selected Asian economies. This volume summarises the main findings of the five country case studies (China, India, the Republic of Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam) on lessons learned to assist countries in restructuring their agricultural sectors for sustainable rural development in response to changing market and trade opportunities, and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals on poverty and hunger eradication.
Author : Donald Larson,Paul Siegel,Panos Varangis
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Condiciones atmosfericas
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Dale S. Rothman,Mohammod T. Irfan,Barry B. Hughes,Eli Margolese-Malin,Jonathan D. Moyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317262954
Building Global Infrastructure is the fourth in a series of volumes-Patterns of Potential Human Progress-that uses the International Futures (IFs) simulation model to explore prospects for human development: how development appears to be unfolding globally and locally, how we would like it to evolve, and how better to assure that we move it in desired directions. Earlier volumes addressed the reduction of global poverty, the advance of global education, and the improvement of global health. Volume 4 sets out to tell the story of the future of global infrastructure. The approach used in this book focuses on the question of whether individual societies will be able to meet future infrastructure demands. Related questions include the following: * What is the range of realistically conceivable futures for infrastructure, considering both demand and supply? * How are the demands for infrastructure balanced with the ability to meet these demands, thereby linking the physical and financial treatment of infrastructure? * What are the effects of providing for infrastructure on issues such as economic productivity and health?
Author : Amadou Thierno Diallo,Ahmet Suayb Gundogdu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030670948
Most books on Islamic finance and development issues are written from an academic perspective. Although academic reflection is key for future direction, dissatisfaction with previous development efforts, as evidenced by their lack of sustainability, suggests the need for a different type of review. Development work is complex and requires a detailed and transparent approach in order to ensure a cogent resolution for potential long-term issues. Each intervention area requires specific elaboration for meaningful impact. The perfect solution for one sector might be detrimental for another. Islamic finance, with its strict Riba restrictions, rules, and other checks and balances, is a good fit for infrastructure development in pursuit of sustainable development. When it comes to sustainable development, this book argues, Islamic finance has the tools to intervene for maximum impact. However, the issue of sustainability is not only related to Islamic finance; more policy discourse is needed. This requires guidance from the principles of Islamic economics, as well. This book discusses infrastructure development vis-à-vis sustainable development, drawn from decades of real-life development banking experience, and proposes impactful intervention methods based on wisdom from Islamic economics and finance.
Author : Takavarasha Jr., Sam,Adams, Carl
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781522531807
As the world becomes digitalized, developing countries are starting to see an increase in technological advancements being integrated into their society. These advancements are creating opportunities to improve both the economy and the lives of people within these areas. Affordability Issues Surrounding the Use of ICT for Development and Poverty Reduction is a relevant scholarly publication that examines the importance of information and communications technology (ICT) and its ability to aid in developing countries and the methods to make such technologies more accessible and cost less. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics, including community networks, infrastructure sharing, and the digital divide, this book is geared toward academics, technology developers, researchers, students, practitioners, and professionals interested in the importance of understanding technological innovations.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Asia
ISBN : 8171886981
Author : John A. Donaldson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801462771
How can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate promoting economic growth, on the grounds that it generally reduces poverty while bringing other economic benefits. However, this dominant hypothesis offers few alternatives for economies that are unable to grow, or in places where economic growth fails to reduce or actually exacerbates poverty. In Small Works, John A. Donaldson draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Chinese provinces—Yunnan and Guizhou—that are exceptions to the purported relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. In Yunnan, an outward-oriented developmental state, one that focuses on large-scale, urban development, has largely failed to reduce poverty, even though it succeeded in stimulating economic growth. Provincial policy shaped roads, tourism, and mining in ways that often precluded participation by poor people. By contrast, Guizhou is a micro-oriented state, one that promotes small-scale, low-skill economic opportunities—and so reduces poverty despite slow economic growth. It is no coincidence that this Guizhou approach parallels the ideas encapsulated in the "scientific development view" of China's current president Hu Jintao. After all, Hu, when Guizhou's leader, helped establish the micro-oriented state in the province. Donaldson’s conclusions have implications for our understanding of development and poverty reduction, economic change in China, and the thinking behind China's policy decisions.
Author : Ganesh Shivakoti,Mai Van Thanh,Tran Duc Vien,Stephen J Leisz
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128104729
Redefining Diversity and Dynamics of Natural Resources Management in Southeast Asia, Volumes 1-4 brings together scientific research and policy issues across various topographical areas in Asia to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues facing the region. Upland Natural Resources and Social Ecological Systems in Northern Vietnam, Volume 2, provides chapters on natural resource management in northern Vietnam tied together by the concept that participatory local involvement is needed in all aspects of natural resource management. The volume examines planning for climate change, managing forestland, alleviating food shortages, living with biodiversity, and assessing the development projects and policies being implemented. Without the involvement of local communities, households, and ultimately individual people, the needed action will not be effectively taken. Upland Natural Resources and Social Ecological Systems in Northern Vietnam, Volume 2, goes beyond just Northern Vietnam to address the issue of transboundary natural resource management—an issue that Vietnam is dealing with in its relations with northern neighbor, China, and western neighbor, Laos—as well as the transboundary water governance between Pakistan and India in south Asia, with the hope that some of the lessons learned may one day be useful in the case of Vietnam and its neighbors. Provides a multi-disciplinary case study into a complex environmental situation involving government institutions, planning, and practices, using northern Vietnam as the focus Covers the issues of natural resource management and biodiversity in depth using international case studies Provides examples of measuring the potential climate change impacts on food security in agricultural regions Examines topics such as planning for climate change, managing forestland, alleviating food shortages, living with biodiversity, and assessing development projects and policies
Author : Luc J. Christiaensen,Lionel Demery,Stefano Paternostro
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This publication analyses country studies into poverty dynamics over the past decade in eight African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Mauritania, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Using improved household survey data, the book provides an overview of poverty trends and considers the impact of policy reforms to promote economic growth and poverty reduction. The report highlights the importance of the following factors in the success of poverty reduction strategies in Africa: country location, as some regions have failed to benefit from economic growth due to their remoteness; the role of infrastructure, such as a viable road network; access to education and land are key private endowments in helping households to benefit from emerging economic opportunities; and the significance of social protection measures for poverty outcomes.
Author : Susan Engel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135214708
This book explores the history, structure and current operations of the World Bank, which despite being the largest development organisation and the largest development research body in the world with tremendous direct and indirect influence on developing economies, has rarely received the critical attention its importance merits. The book’s unique contribution is twofold: it provides an original analysis of the interaction between economic theory, political practice and the Bank’s development praxis as well as two detailed, grounded studies of the Bank’s lending practices. The book starts with a detailed examination of the development theory and practice of the World Bank from its Keynesian origins to the current shift through the Washington Consensus to the so-called post-Washington Consensus. The second part is a detailed analysis of the Bank’s lending practices in two countries, Vietnam and Indonesia. The case studies extensively utilise World Bank sources —analysing the Project Appraisal Documents for some 113 loans. They also draw on the secondary literature and on interviews with World Bank staff, government officials, academics and NGOs in both countries. The case studies enable the development of empirically-based conclusions regarding the impact of Bank policies on the economic and social development of two important Southeast Asian nations making possible an assessment of the extent to which the rhetoric of the post-Washington Consensus has been incorporated into the Bank’s lending practices. This book will be of interest to both advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as specialist audiences in the fields of international political economy, development, international organizations and Southeast Asian Studies.
Author : Deon Filmer
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiebre
ISBN : 8210379456XXX