Poverty Strategies in Asia

Edited by John Weiss and Haider Khan ()

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Abstract: It is widely recognized that while high and sustained economic growth is critical for poverty reduction, there are other policy interventions that may also be significant in a ‘growth plus’ approach to poverty reduction. This volume brings together a series of case studies on the poverty impact of alternative interventions in a broad range of Asian economies. The measures examined within the book cover trade liberalization both in general and in a specific market, infrastructure investment (particularly in roads), population policies, cash transfers, microfinance, employment guarantee programs and contract farming. The countries covered include the Philippines, Lao PDR, Pakistan, India and Thailand. While the results illustrated by the contributors are mixed, they demonstrate the potential for further progress in poverty reduction.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Development Studies; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781845429287
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Poverty Strategies in Asia: Growth Plus

Haider Khan and John Weiss

Ch 2 Macro-Modeling of Poverty and the Dual–Dual Model

Haider Khan

Ch 3 Rice Market Reform and Poverty in the Philippines

Caesar B. Cororaton

Ch 4 Infrastructure and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence

Hossein Jalilian and John Weiss

Ch 5 Roads and Poverty Reduction in Lao PDR

Peter Warr

Ch 6 Poverty, Vulnerability and Family Size: Evidence from the Philippines

Aniceto Orbeta

Ch 7 Poverty Targeting in Pakistan: The Role of Zakat and the Lady Health Worker Program

Ghulam Arif

Ch 8 Serving the Poorest of the Poor: The Poverty Impact of the Khushhali Bank’s Microfinance Lending in Pakistan

Heather Montgomery

Ch 9 The Role of Community Preferences in Targeting the Rural Poor: Evidence from Uttar Pradesh

Pradeep Srivastava

Ch 10 Contract Farming and Poverty Reduction: The Case of Organic Rice Contract Farming in Thailand

Sununtar Setboonsarng, PingSun Leung and Junning Cai

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