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Perspectives on growth and poverty / edited by Rolph van der Hoeven and Anthony Shorrocks
- Published
- Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, [2003]
- Copyright Date
- ©2003
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 302 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Hoeven, Rolph van der and Shorrocks, Anthony F.
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- Contents
- Collective values, behavioural norms and rules: building institutions for economic growth and poverty reduction / Ke-young Chu -- Institutional capital and poverty: a transition perspective / Syed Ahsan -- Why is so little spent on educating the poor? / Tony Addison and Aminur Rahman -- The fragility of empirical links between inequality, trade liberalization, growth and poverty / Jennifer Mbabazi, Oliver Morrissey and Chris Milner -- Convergence clubs in cross-country life expectancy dynamics / David Mayer-Foulkes -- Reaching the poor: fine-tuning poverty targeting using a poverty map of Mozambique / Orlando San Martin -- Poverty, growth and redistribution: a case-study of Iran / Ahmad Assadzadeh and Satya Paul -- How economic growth reduces poverty: a general equilibrium analysis for Indonesia / George Fane and Peter Warr -- Poverty, inequality and growth in Zambia during the 1990s / Neil McCulloch, Bob Baulch and Milasoa Cherel-Robson -- Gender and education as determinants of household poverty in Nigeria / Christiana Okojie.
- Summary
- Contains papers presented at a UNU/WIDER "International Conference on Growth and Poverty" held in Helsinki, May 2001.
- Subject(s)
- Economic development—Congresses
- Poverty—Developing countries—Congresses
- Education and state—Developing countries—Congresses
- Développement économique—Congrès
- Pauvreté—Pays en voie de développement—Congrès
- Éducation—Politique gouvernementale—Pays en voie de développement—Congrès
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Economic Conditions
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS—Economics—Macroeconomics
- Economic development
- Economic policy
- Education and state
- Poverty
- Social policy
- Wirtschaftswachstum
- Verteilungsgerechtigkeit
- Armut
- POVERTY
- ECONOMIC GROWTH
- ECONOMIC POLICY
- DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
- STATISTICAL DATA
- POVERTY MITIGATION
- INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS
- ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION
- PRIMARY EDUCATION
- PUBLIC EXPENDITURES
- TRADE LIBERALIZATION
- ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
- ECONOMETRIC MODELS
- AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA
- INCOME DISTRIBUTION
- LIFE EXPECTANCY
- SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS
- STANDARD OF LIVING
- MOZAMBIQUE
- IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)
- INDONESIA
- ZAMBIA
- FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS
- GENDER STATISTICS
- WOMEN'S EDUCATION
- NIGERIA
- Developing countries—Economic policy—Congresses
- Developing countries—Social policy—Congresses
- Pays en voie de développement—Politique économique—Congrès
- Pays en voie de développement—Politique sociale—Congrès
- Developing countries
- Entwicklungsländer
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0585485623 (electronic bk.)
9780585485621 (electronic bk.)
928081091X (pbk.)
9789280810912 (pbk.)
9280870521
9789280870527 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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