Poverty In Developing Countries

Author : Ann Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226318004

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Globalization and Poverty by Ann Harrison Pdf

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.

Author : Channing Arndt,Finn Tarp
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198744801

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Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries by Channing Arndt,Finn Tarp Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and the information base in developing countries with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes with respect to poverty reduction are high; (ii) the determinants of living standards are often volatile; and (iii) related information bases, while much improved, are often characterized by significant non-sample error. It also remains, to a surprisingly high degree, an activity undertaken by technical assistance personnel and consultants based in developed countries. This book seeks to enhance the transparency, replicability, and comparability of existing practice. In so doing, it also aims to significantly lower the barriers to entry to the conduct of rigorous poverty measurement and increase the participation of analysts from developing countries in their own poverty assessments. The book focuses on two domains: the measurement of absolute consumption poverty and a first order dominance approach to multidimensional welfare analysis. In each domain, it provides a series of flexible computer codes designed to facilitate analysis by allowing the analyst to start from a flexible and known base. The book volume covers the theoretical grounding for the code streams provided, a chapter on 'estimation in practice', a series of 11 case studies where the code streams are operationalized, as well as a synthesis, an extension to inequality, and a look forward.

Author : Sita Ram Singh
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 817648802X

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Poverty Alleviation in the Third World by Sita Ram Singh Pdf

With particular reference to India.

Author : Montek S. Ahluwalia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : OCLC:969634206

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Growth and Poverty in Developing Countries by Montek S. Ahluwalia Pdf

Author : John Cockburn,Jane Kabubo-Mariara
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781441962751

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Child Welfare in Developing Countries by John Cockburn,Jane Kabubo-Mariara Pdf

to establish impact, attributing observed changes in welfare to the intervention, while identifying key factors of success. Impact evaluations are aimed at providing feedback to help improve the design of programs and policies. They also provide greater accountability and a tool for dynamic learning, allowing policymakers to improve ongoing programs and ultimately better allocate funds across programs. Such a causal analysis is essential for understanding the relative role of alternative interventions in reducing poverty. The papers in this section again adopt a variety of techniques. The rst two impact evaluation studies employ propensity score matching to establish, ex-post, a valid control group to assess the impact on child schooling outcomes among b- e ciaries of various interventions in Kenya and Ethiopia. The third chapter c- ries out an ex-ante evaluation of alternative cash transfer programs on child school attendance in Uruguay. The nal paper further carries out in-depth macro-modeling and micro-regression analysis to simulate the impacts of the food crisis and various policy responses, including food subsidies and cash transfers, on various dimensions of child poverty in Mali. Though using different approaches, the studies are gen- ally in agreement concerning the positive impact of the cash transfer program on child schooling and labor market outcomes. The studies from Kenya and Uruguay both nd that the schooling interventions are progressive.

Author : Yongnian Zheng,Jiwei Qian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000650099

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Development and Poverty Reduction by Yongnian Zheng,Jiwei Qian Pdf

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.

Author : Laurent Elder,Rohan Samarajiva,Alison Gillwald,Hernan Galperin
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781552505717

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Information Lives of the Poor by Laurent Elder,Rohan Samarajiva,Alison Gillwald,Hernan Galperin Pdf

Information and communication have always opened opportunities for the poor to earn income, reduce isolation, and respond resiliently to emergencies. With mobile phone use exploding across the developing world, even marginalized communities are now benefiting from modern communication tools. This book explores the impacts of this unprecedented technological change. It looks at how the poor use information and communication technologies (ICTs). How they benefit from mobile devices, computers, and the Internet, and what insights can research provide to promote affordable access to ICTs, so that communities across the developing world can take advantage of the opportunities they offer.

Author : Mr.Mahmood Hasan Khan
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451850093

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Rural Poverty in Developing Countries by Mr.Mahmood Hasan Khan Pdf

In most developing countries, poverty is more widespread and severe in rural than in urban areas. The author reviews some important aspects of rural poverty and draws key implications for public policy. He presents a policy framework for reducing poverty, taking into account the functional differences and overlap between the rural poor. Several policy options are delineated and explained, including stable management of the macroeconomic environment, transfer of assets, investment in and access to the physical and social infrastructure, access to credit and jobs, and provision of safety nets. Finally, some guideposts are identified for assessing strategies to reduce rural poverty.

Author : Paola de Salvo,Manuel Vaquero Pineiro
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839686177

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Rural Development by Paola de Salvo,Manuel Vaquero Pineiro Pdf

The book brings together a series of contributions with a common goal of reflecting the links between economic development and rural development. The scenario is dotted not only with old and new wounds but also with innovative strategies in an attempt to overcome existing delays. The chapters of the book are composed of scenarios full of case studies. The plans to be adopted to help the countries that have lagged behind fueled an intense debate since the obstacles to development, as evidenced by the extensive scientific literature available, now appeared to be the realities present in the socio-economic structures of a large number of villages. Although the data available are still few, it is assumed that the Covid-19 pandemic will make a landscape already full of criticalities even more fragile.

Author : Mr.Mahmood Hasan Khan
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1589060067

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Rural Poverty in Developing Countries by Mr.Mahmood Hasan Khan Pdf

Reviews causes of poverty in rural areas and presents a policy framework for reducing rural poverty, including through land reform, public works programs, access to credit, physical and social infrastructure, subsidies, and transfer of technology. Identifies key elements for drafting a policy to reduce rural poverty.

Author : Al Sadi
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477218815

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Poverty Development by Al Sadi Pdf

The book deals with poverty as one of the most serious and urgent issue in our modern time. Partly because Poverty is the essence of all other social illnesses and partly because of its direct influence over human security system in a world accelerating towards global and international common human rights values. The book addresses the current poverty reduction plans that proved to be inefficient and controversial, these plans made poor nations in their attempt to escape poverty net, they find themselves trapped in a well woven poverty net and became more dependent than ever in their everyday food and human needs. All the known institutions like the WB, IMF, Development Banks as well as aid organs worked under the Washington Consensus ready-made recipe in granting their preconditioned aid, let alone some subvention measurement protected by local legislative system in rich and donating nations. Poverty becomes a threat to the economic development in rich nations as well and for the time being a security one. The book will explain and reason the way poverty is developing in the world and suggest some solutions and compromises needed to solve this issue.

Author : Shahin Yaqub
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112310151

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Poverty Dynamics in Developing Countries by Shahin Yaqub Pdf

Author : Spicker, Paul
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447343332

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The Poverty of Nations by Spicker, Paul Pdf

In this persuasive study, social welfare and policy expert Paul Spicker makes a case for a relational view of poverty. Poverty is much more than a lack of resources. It involves a complex set of social relationships, such as economic disadvantage, insecurity or a lack of rights. These relational elements tell us what poverty is – what it consists of, what poor people are experiencing, and what problems need to be addressed. This book examines poverty in the context of the economy, society and the political community, considering how states can respond to issues of inequality, exclusion and powerlessness. Drawing on examples of social policy in both rich and poor countries, this is an accessible contribution to the debate about the nature of poverty and responses to it.

Author : Richard H. Adams,John Page
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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International Migration, Remittances, and Poverty in Developing Countries by Richard H. Adams,John Page Pdf

Few studies have examined the impact of international migration and remittances on poverty in a broad cross-section of developing countries. The authors try to fill this gap by constructing a new data set on poverty, international migration, and remittances for 74 low- and middle-income developing countries. Four key findings emerge: 1) International migration-defined as the share of a country's population living abroad-has a strong, statistical impact in reducing poverty. On average, a 10 percent increase in the share of international migrants in a country's population will lead to a 1.9 percent decline in the share of people living in poverty ($1.00 a person a day). 2) Distance to a major labor-receiving region-like the United States or OECD (Europe)-has an important effect on international migration. Developing countries that are located closest to the United States or OECD (Europe) are also those countries with the highest rates of migration. 3) An inverted U-shaped curve exists between the level of country per capita income and international migration. Developing countries with low or high per capita GDP produce smaller shares of international migrants than do middle-income developing countries. The authors find no evidence that developing countries with higher levels of poverty produce more migrants. Because of considerable travel costs associated with international migration, international migrants come from those income groups which are just above the poverty line in middle-income developing countries. 4) International remittances-defined as the share of remittances in country GDP-have a strong, statistical impact in reducing poverty. On average, a 10 percent increase in the share of international remittances in a country's GDP will lead to a 1.6 percent decline in the share of people living in poverty.

Author : Gary S. Fields,Guy Pierre Pfeffermann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1402074123

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Pathways Out of Poverty by Gary S. Fields,Guy Pierre Pfeffermann Pdf

Identifies the ways in which private firms and farms contribute to economic mobility and poverty reduction and what governments can do to enhance this contribution.