Title Perspectives on growth and poverty / edited by Rolph van der Hoeven and Anthony Shorrocks

Published Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 302 pages) : illustrations Contents Collective values, behavioural norms and rules: building institutions for economic growth and poverty reduction / Ke-young Chu -- Institutional capital and poverty: a transition perspective / Syed Ahsan -- Why is so little spent on educating the poor? / Tony Addison and Aminur Rahman -- The fragility of empirical links between inequality, trade liberalization, growth and poverty / Jennifer Mbabazi, Oliver Morrissey and Chris Milner -- Convergence clubs in cross-country life expectancy dynamics / David Mayer-Foulkes -- Reaching the poor: fine-tuning poverty targeting using a poverty map of Mozambique / Orlando San Martin -- Poverty, growth and redistribution: a case-study of Iran / Ahmad Assadzadeh and Satya Paul -- How economic growth reduces poverty: a general equilibrium analysis for Indonesia / George Fane and Peter Warr -- Poverty, inequality and growth in Zambia during the 1990s / Neil McCulloch, Bob Baulch and Milasoa Cherel-Robson -- Gender and education as determinants of household poverty in Nigeria / Christiana Okojie Summary Contains papers presented at a UNU/WIDER "International Conference on Growth and Poverty" held in Helsinki, May 2001 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Economic development -- Congresses Poverty -- Developing countries -- Congresses Education and state -- Developing countries -- Congresses POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics. Economic development Economic policy Education and state Poverty Social policy Wirtschaftswachstum Verteilungsgerechtigkeit Armut POVERTY. ECONOMIC GROWTH. ECONOMIC POLICY. DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. STATISTICAL DATA. POVERTY MITIGATION. INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS. ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION. PRIMARY EDUCATION. PUBLIC EXPENDITURES. TRADE LIBERALIZATION. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. ECONOMETRIC MODELS. AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA. INCOME DISTRIBUTION. LIFE EXPECTANCY. SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS. STANDARD OF LIVING. MOZAMBIQUE. IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF) INDONESIA. ZAMBIA. FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS. GENDER STATISTICS. WOMEN'S EDUCATION. NIGERIA. SUBJECT Developing countries -- Economic policy -- Congresses Developing countries -- Social policy -- Congresses Subject Developing countries Entwicklungsländer Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Hoeven, Rolph van der Shorrocks, Anthony F ISBN 0585485623 9780585485621 928081091X 9789280810912 9280870521 9789280870527

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