The Asian 'poverty miracle' : impressive accomplishments or incomplete achievements / edited by Jacques Silber, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Guanghua Wan, Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Published
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2016]
An Asian poverty line? Issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- A poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and Jacques Silber -- Concepts and measurement of vulnerablility to poverty and other issues: a review of literature / Tomoki Fujii -- Measuring the impact of vulnerability on the number of poor: a new methodology with empirical illustrations / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan -- Climate change and vulnerability to poverty: an emperical investigation in rural Indonesia / Tomoki Fujii -- Measuring multidimensional poverty in three Southern Asian countries using ordinal variables / Valérie Bérenger -- Poverty and nutrition: a case study of rural household in Thailand and Viet Nam / Hermann Waibel and Lena Hohfeld -- Poverty and ethnicity in Asian countries / Carlos Gradin
Summary
Following rapid economic growth in recent decades, Asia and the Pacific experienced an impressive reduction in extreme poverty, but this drop was not uniform and achievements are still incomplete. Vulnerability to natural disasters, the increasing impact of climate change and economic crises should all be taken into account. There is also a need to consider the multidimensional nature of poverty and the non-uniformity of the decrease across different ethnic groups. This book explores the Asian 'poverty miracle' and argues for the development and use of an Asia-specific poverty line
Notes
"A joint publication of the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank Institute."
