Title Poverty, growth, and institutions in developing Asia / edited by Ernesto M. Pernia and Anil B. Deolalikar

Published Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Published for the Asian Development Bank by Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 332 pages L) : illustrations Contents Introduction / A.B. Deolalikar & E.M. Pernia -- Poverty Reduction: Approaches and the Role of Political Institutions / A.B. Deolalikar and E.M. Pernia -- Sociocultural Factors Affecting Poverty and Poverty Reduction / M. Racelis & M. Concepcion Castro Guevara -- Public Sector Reform and Poverty Reduction / A.B. Brillantes Jr -- Decentralization and Poverty Reduction / R. Gaiha -- Revisiting Growth and Poverty Reduction in Indonesia / A.M. Balisacan, E.M. Pernia & A. Asra -- Poverty, Inequality and Growth in the Philippines / A.M. Balisacan & E.M. Pernia -- Poverty, Growth and Inequality in Thailand / A.B. Deolalikar -- Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Vietnam / A.M. Balisacan, E.M. Pernia & G.E.B. Estrada Summary Asia stands our among the world's developing regions as having achieved dramatic poverty reduction accompanied by rapid economic growth. But the region's vastness and diversity mask persistent disparities in economic and social progress between and within countries. While such disparities pose a continuing challenge, they are also a source of lessons: the experience of the more successful East and Southeast Asian economies vis-̉-vis the other, less successful Asian developing economies. The theme of this book is that economic growth is the key, but that institutions and other national and sub-national attributes are important as well. These attitudes help to explain differences in social development and poverty reduction across countries and sub-national areas which cannot be accounted for by growth factors alone. The book concludes that a more complete strategy needs to consider various institutional factors at the national and sub-national levels to promote rapid growth and sustained poverty reduction Notes "This book is an outcome of ADB's regional technical assistance research project, Pro-Poor Economic Growth and Institutional Constraints to Poverty Reduction in Developing Asia"--Preface Papers and discussion from a conference held in October 2001 in Manila, climaxing the project Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Poverty -- Asia -- Congresses Income distribution -- Asia -- Congresses Political planning -- Asia -- Congresses POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History. Economic history Economic policy Income distribution Political planning Poverty Social policy Armoede. Inkomensverdeling. Economische politiek. Sociale politiek. Economische situatie. SUBJECT Asia -- Economic policy -- Congresses Asia -- Social policy -- Congresses Asia -- Economic conditions -- Congresses Subject Asia Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Pernia, Ernesto M., 1943- Deolalikar, Anil B ISBN 9781403937797 1403937796 0230504760 9780230504769 1280426314 9781280426315

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