Understanding Poverty in India
Title | Understanding Poverty in India PDF eBook |
Author | Asian Development Bank |
Publisher | Asian Development Bank |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9290923296 |
Inclusive growth needs to be achieved to reduce poverty and other disparities and raise economic growth. This book develops a poverty profile for India in view of the ongoing national and global efforts toward ensuring inclusive growth and bringing poverty levels down. This poverty profile will enable academics and policy makers to reassess and improve on the existing methodologies in estimating poverty rates, evaluate the effectiveness of existing poverty programs, and suggest alternative and complementary options for strategic intervention based on the lessons drawn from program implementation both at the state and national levels.
Understanding Poverty
Title | Understanding Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2006-04-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0198041535 |
Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays cover a wide array of topics: the first essay is about how poverty gets measured. The next section is about the causes of poverty and its persistence, and the ideas range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the problems of "excessive" population growth, corruption and ethnic conflict. The next section is about policy: how should we fight poverty? The essays discuss how to get drug companies to produce more vaccines for the diseases of the poor, what we should and should not expect from micro-credit, what we should do about child labor, how to design welfare policies that work better and a host of other topics. The final section is about where the puzzles lie: what are the most important anomalies, the big gaps in the way economists think about poverty? The essays talk about the puzzling reluctance of Kenyan farmers to fertilizers, the enduring power of social relationships in economic transactions in developing countries and the need to understand where aspirations come from, and much else. Every essay is written with the aim of presenting the latest and the most sophisticated in economics without any recourse to jargon or technical language.
Understanding Poverty
Title | Understanding Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Sheldon DANZIGER |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0674030176 |
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. Understanding Poverty brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Understanding Urban Poverty in India
Title | Understanding Urban Poverty in India PDF eBook |
Author | Olivier Brito |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Poor |
ISBN | 9788131606223 |
Over the past 20 years, researchers focusing on poverty have acknowledged the need for more comprehensive approaches to poverty, combining the rigor of quantitative methods and reflexivity of qualitative approaches. This book, which offers a portrait of poverty in the city of Mumbai through a wide spectrum of social sciences - from economics to population studies and feminist epistemology - discusses some of the actions that need to be taken to tackle urban poverty. Besides providing insights into the contours of poverty, the book illustrates how to build comprehensive knowledge on poverty and exclusion. It will be of interest to students and scholars concerned with poverty issues and urbanization.
Why Poverty Persists in India
Title | Why Poverty Persists in India PDF eBook |
Author | Mukesh Eswaran |
Publisher | Delhi : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780195632385 |
The authors examine how the links between the various sectors of the economy impinge on the development process. They argue that moving labour from agriculture into industry is a key element in improving the well-being of the poor but qualify this by showing that industrial progress by itself cannot benefit the poor, in the absence of progress in the agricultural sector.
Understanding Poverty Among the Elderly in India: Implications for Social Pension Policy
Title | Understanding Poverty Among the Elderly in India: Implications for Social Pension Policy PDF eBook |
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Release | 2008 |
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Understanding Poverty
Title | Understanding Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Raj Kishore Sinha |
Publisher | Anamika Pub & Distributors |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9788179750186 |
With reference to India; a study.