By John Weiss, Haider A. Khan
ISBN-10: 1845429281
ISBN-13: 9781845429287
ISBN-10: 1847203167
ISBN-13: 9781847203168
`This is a vital ebook creating a convincing case that structural components are of an important value in filtering the influence of development on poverty. A winning improvement approach must tackle those structural components on the kingdom point and regulate them with the intention to take better good thing about the capability merits of globalization in lowering poverty.' - Erik Thorbecke, Cornell collage, US `This quantity makes an immense contribution to our figuring out of the advanced courting among financial progress and poverty aid. The concentrate on assessing the effect of particular poverty-reduction interventions on the disaggregated, case-study point marks an enormous and welcome departure from the traditional method of learn during this quarter . . . researchers and practitioners operating within the box of poverty relief and improvement in Asia and past will locate a lot to curiosity them during this stimulating and informative volume.' - Colin Kirkpatrick, collage of Manchester, united kingdom Poverty recommendations in Asia is an exam of quite a lot of measures aimed toward lowering poverty within the sector. it truly is widely known that whereas excessive and sustained monetary progress is serious for poverty aid, there are different coverage interventions that can also be major in a `growth plus' method of poverty relief. This quantity brings jointly a chain of case stories at the poverty impression of different interventions in a vast variety of Asian economies. The measures tested in the e-book disguise exchange liberalization either in basic and in a particular industry, infrastructure funding (particularly in roads), inhabitants rules, funds transfers, microfinance, employment warrantly courses and agreement farming. The nations coated contain the Philippines, Lao PDR, Pakistan, India and Thailand. whereas the implications illustrated via the members are combined, they show the aptitude for additional growth in poverty aid. This most recent joint book through the ADBI and Edward Elgar Publishing could be warmly welcomed by means of students and researchers of Asian experiences and improvement. specialist economists inside of foreign and bilateral improvement corporations and policymakers also will locate a lot to have interaction them.
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C) What is the transmission mechanism through which the removal of the controls may affect the poor? Rice is the staple food of about 80 per cent of Filipinos, and therefore a major item in the consumption basket of consumers. It is the single most important agricultural crop in the Philippines, and therefore a major source of income of millions of Filipino farmers. Because of its political significance, the government is heavily involved both in the supply and distribution of rice to assure consumers of a sufficient and stable supply of rice at low prices and to maintain a reasonable return to rice farmers with adequate price incentives.
Fan (2003) surveys the evidence from the econometric analysis of road programs in a number of countries carried out by IFPRI. For the Philippines Balisacan and Edillon (2005) report that from various simulations of the impact of various expenditure packages rural electrification appears to offer the best combination of growth and poverty reduction. They also include the impact of land reform, which surprisingly appears to have only a weak poverty effect. 5 of World Bank (2004). The chapters in Weiss (2005) survey country experiences with poverty targeting.
In terms of poverty severity the rural poor do seem to gain more when labor markets in the formal sector are flexible, than when they are not. Whether this warrants labor market reforms leading to more flexibility is a political economy problem that we do not try to settle here. Several policy conclusions can be reached regarding poverty reduction strategies in South Asia in the light of the findings of this chapter. The results show that trade liberalization does not conflict with poverty reduction and hence can be pursued without fearing an adverse poverty impact.
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