Publication year: 2015
ISBN: 978-981-287-420-7
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This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable measures. Asia is facing many challenges arising from population growth, rapid urbanization, provision of services, climate change and the need to redress declining growth after the global financial crisis. This book examines poverty and related issues and aims to advance the development of new tools and measurement of multidimensional poverty and poverty reduction policy analysis. The book covers a wide range of issues, including determinants and causes of poverty and its changes; consequences and impacts of poverty on human capital formation, growth and consumption; assessment of poverty strategies and policies; the role of government, NGOs and other institutions in poverty reduction; rural-urban migration and poverty; vulnerability to poverty; breakdown of poverty into chronic and transitory components; and a comparative study on poverty issues in Asia and other regions.
Subject: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance, Development Economics, Economic Policy, Social Policy, Climate Change Management and Policy, 'RAY' Housing Scheme in India, Agricultural Production and Poverty in India, Climate Change and Poverty in Bangladesh, Climate Change and Poverty in India, Climate Change, Disaster Management and Poverty Reduction, Crop Diversification and Poverty in Rural India, Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions in Asia