Confronting Poverty In Developing Countries

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Confronting Poverty In Developing Countries

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Author : Paul Glewwe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988-01-01

Confronting Poverty In Developing Countries written by Paul Glewwe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Household surveys categories.

Confronting Poverty

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Author : Susan E. Rice
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2010-06-01

Confronting Poverty written by Susan E. Rice and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Political Science categories.

Former Brookings Senior Fellow Susan E. Rice spearheads an investigation of the connections between poverty and fragile states and the implications for American security. Coedited by Rice and former Brookings colleagues Corinne Graff and Carlos Pascual, Confronting Poverty is a timely reminder that alleviating global poverty and shoring up weak states are not only humanitarian and economic imperatives, but key components of a more balanced and sustainable U.S. national security strategy. Rice elucidates the relationship between poverty, state weakness, and transnational security threats, and Graff and Pascual offer policy recommendations. The book's overarching conclusions highlight the need to invest in poverty alleviation and capacity building in weak states in order to break the vicious cycle of poverty, fragility, and transnational threats. Confronting Poverty grows out of a project on global poverty and U.S. national security that Rice directed at Brookings from 2002 through January 2009, before she became U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations.

Improving Data On Poverty In The Third World

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Author : Paul Glewwe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

Improving Data On Poverty In The Third World written by Paul Glewwe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Developing countries categories.

This paper is an account of the World Bank's effort to collect household-level data on poverty in developing countries and what that data says about the effects of government policies on living conditions of the poor. The main objective of the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) surveys is to provide household-level data for evaluating the population's living conditions. This paper gives a history of LSMS and shows general trends that emerged in studies for which LSMS data are available: (a) most of the poor are in rural areas; (b) most of the poor are in households in which the head works in agriculture; and (c) the heads of poor households have low levels of education. Selected results of studies on the persistence of poverty, the effects on the poor, structural adjustment, food stamps and food subsidies, and raising user fees for health care and education are presented.

Nagarlok

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

Nagarlok written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Cities and towns categories.

Ifda Dossier

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Author : International Foundation for Development Alternatives
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

Ifda Dossier written by International Foundation for Development Alternatives and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Developing countries categories.

Lsms Working Paper

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Author : Victor Lavy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995

Lsms Working Paper written by Victor Lavy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Developing countries categories.

This study estimates the incidence, characteristics, and patterns of change over time of illiteracy in Morocco. The study compares the results from direct literacy assessment to the conventional methods of self-reported literacy. This effort has provided more detailed, objective information with which patterns of literacy skills in the country may be determined, and their relationship to other important social and economic behaviors and outcomes analyzed. It also examines more closely the reliability and validity of common proxy indicators used to estimate literacy rates and skill levels. Results show that Morocco has been able to halve its literacy rate during the last 30 years; however, large disparities remain between men and women and between urban and rural areas. Implications for methods of measuring literacy and for formulating policy to increase literacy are discussed. (EH)

Women S Schooling The Selectivity Of Fertility And Child Mortality In Sub Saharan Africa

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Author : Mark Martin Pitt
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 1995

Women S Schooling The Selectivity Of Fertility And Child Mortality In Sub Saharan Africa written by Mark Martin Pitt and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Family & Relationships categories.

The Distribution Of Welfare In Ghana 1987 88

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Author : Paul Glewwe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

The Distribution Of Welfare In Ghana 1987 88 written by Paul Glewwe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Business & Economics categories.

This paper describes the distribution of welfare in Ghana in 1987-88, as measured by consumption expenditures. The data used are from the first year of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. While primarily descriptive, the paper contains information with clear policy implications. Several findings stand out. First, rural residents are, on average, clearly worse off than urban residents. The poorest group are residents of the rural savannah while the wealthiest are those who live in the capital, Accra. Second, education of the household head is strongly positively correlated with household welfare. Third, households where the head is self-employed, especially in agriculture, are generally found at the lower end of the distribution of welfare, while those headed by a wage earner, either in the private or public sector, are better off. Fourth, unemployment among household heads is not correlated with household welfare. Finally, although the poorer groups are less likely to seek medical help when they are ill, malnutrition among young children in these groups is not much higher than that among the better off groups.

World Debt And The Human Condition

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Author : Ved Nanda
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1993

World Debt And The Human Condition written by Ved Nanda and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Business & Economics categories.

Set against the backdrop of deteriorating living conditions for hundreds of millions of people in developing and debtor countries, this volume concentrates on the structural adjustment policies designed to facilitate debt repayment and to stabilize indebted economies and the effects these policies have on the human rights of affected peoples. Conducted by contributors from various disciplines, this analysis provides distinctive insights into the relationship between international economic decisions and human welfare. The volume begins with general chapters on the issue of world debt; the various perceptions of debtors and creditors and the general consequences of the crisis. The specifics of the right to development are presented along with an explanation of and a rationale for this particular project on debt and human rights. The social, political, and economic consequences of the debt crisis and of the adjustment policies designed to alleviate it are presented by academic analysts as well as economists involved in dealing with poverty and equity issues at the international financial agencies. The book concludes with contributions from NGO representatives. These chapters discuss policy change and popular participation. The complex issues of debt and international economics are examined from a variety of perspectives. World Debt and the Human Condition's unifying element is a shared concern for the advancement of human dignity and the protection of the basic human rights of all those affected by the current international debt crisis and by current international economic policies and development strategies.

Latin American Economic Development 1950 1980

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Author : Eliana A. Cardoso
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

Latin American Economic Development 1950 1980 written by Eliana A. Cardoso and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Economic surveys categories.

The paper stresses the evolutionary and adaptive experience of Latin American growth between 1950 and 1980, and provides a synthetic view by considering the sources of growth within a simple production framework. Regressions use quinquennial panel data for 18 Latin American countries.They provide an estimate of the net return to investment, of the elasticity of output to labor and of the contribution of other variables with influence on efficiency. The regressions show that Latin American growth varied systematically with trade performance. The paper provides information on the effects of inflation upon per capita income growth in the region. There is a negative correlation: an inflation rate of even 20 percent reduces the per capita growth rate by 0.4 percentage point, or almost 1.5 percent of the regional mean of 3 percent growth between 1950 and 1980. This result does not hold, however, once high inflation observations are excluded. Finally we call attention to the persistent problems of income distribution and poverty.