1.Under-developed and poorer nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America neither part of the capitalist west nor the communist east but often regarded as a proving ground and sphere of influence by both. 2.All of the underdeveloped countries in the world considered as a whole. ...
The themes discussed in this commentary are based on the findings of country case studies published by the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) on the topic of immunisation and related health services for the urban poor in Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Vietnam...
Globalization and the Poor in Asia: Can Shared Growth be Sustained?, Chapter 1 Introduction, Palgrave/MacmillanNissanke M, Thorbecke E (2008). Globalization and the poor in Asia: Can Shared ... Rimjhim M Aggarwal 被引量: 1发表: 2017年 Globalization and rural poverty , Globalization and ...
We examine the sensitivity of U.K.-Spanish poverty comparisons to variations in the dependence of equivalence scales on household size and composition, usi... JY Duclos,M Mercader-Prats - 《Review of Income & Wealth》 被引量: 57发表: 2010年 Globalization and the poor in Asia : can shared...
Severe poverty persists in South Africa in spite of the country's existing social security programmes. Most of the poor live in households that receive no ... Samson,J Michael - 《Social Dynamics》 被引量: 64发表: 2002年 Changing the development policy paradigm: Investing in Social security ...
Using an absolute definition of poverty and economic classes, this paper presents trends and estimates of the poor, near-poor and middle-class working populationWorking population in developing Asia and the Pacific. It finds that since 1991, working povertyWorking poverty has fallen remarkably, while...
Exchange-Rate Policies in Emerging Countries: Eleven Empirical Regularities From Latin America and East Asia Some of the topics addressed include: the relationship between exchange-rate regimes and growth, the costs of currency crises, the merits of “dollarization... S Edwards - 《Open Economies Re...
This urban growth is occurring not only in the capitals of each country, but also in provincial cities and district towns, particularly in the larger population countries. Indonesia now has 27 cities and towns with populations of greater than 300 000. In the Philippines, this figure has now...
and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor / Uneven Paths of Development: Innovation and Learning in Asia and Africa AbstractBecoming a rich country requires being able to produce and export commodities that embody certain characteristics. We classify 779 commodities (exp... OR Hassan,ET Gomez 被引量: 0...
But the present conflict for the lake of Boeng Kak in Phnom Penh shows - like looking through a magnifying lens - how accelerated development has, up to now, mainly benefited the country's narrow elite and foreign investors at the expense of the natural environment and the poor. Urban land...