Poverty Reduction for Inclusive Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poverty Reduction for Inclusive Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia write by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary. This book was released on 2021-05-15. Poverty Reduction for Inclusive Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides practical policy recommendations that are useful for developing Asia and for accelerating poverty reduction plans in the rest of the world. Poverty reduction in all its forms remains one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. In developing Asia, rapid growth in countries and sub-regions such as China, India, and Southeast Asia has lifted millions out of poverty, but progress has been uneven. On the other hand, the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the global economic recession that it has caused are pushing millions of people back into poverty. Poverty reduction, inclusive growth, and sustainable development are inseparable, and poverty reduction is the premise for sustainable development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a bold commitment to finish what we started and end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. However, because of the current global recession, the world is not on track to end poverty by 2030. Given the aforementioned situation, if we plan to achieve the no-poverty target in line with the SDGs, governments need to reconsider their policies and economies need to allocate their resources for this aim. Owing to the importance of the topic, this book provides several thematic and empirical studies on the roles of small and medium-sized enterprises, local businesses and trusts, international remittances and microfinance, energy security and energy efficiency in poverty reduction, and inclusive growth.
Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa
Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa write by Kathleen Beegle. This book was released on 2019-10-09. Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sub-Saharan Africa's turnaround over the past couple of decades has been dramatic. After many years in decline, the continent's economy picked up in the mid-1990s. Along with this macroeconomic growth, people became healthier, many more youngsters attended schools, and the rate of extreme poverty declined from 54 percent in 1990 to 41 percent in 2015. Political and social freedoms expanded, and gender equality advanced. Conflict in the region also subsided, although it still claims thousands of civilian lives in some countries and still drives pressing numbers of displaced persons. Despite Africa’s widespread economic and social welfare accomplishments, the region’s challenges remain daunting: Economic growth has slowed in recent years. Poverty rates in many countries are the highest in the world. And notably, the number of poor in Africa is rising because of population growth. From a global perspective, the biggest concentration of poverty has shifted from South Asia to Africa. Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa explores critical policy entry points to address the demographic, societal, and political drivers of poverty; improve income-earning opportunities both on and off the farm; and better mobilize resources for the poor. It looks beyond macroeconomic stability and growth—critical yet insufficient components of these objectives—to ask what more could be done and where policy makers should focus their attention to speed up poverty reduction. The pro-poor policy agenda advanced in this volume requires not only economic growth where the poor work and live, but also mitigation of the many risks to which African households are exposed. As such, this report takes a "jobs" lens to its task. It focuses squarely on the productivity and livelihoods of the poor and vulnerable—that is, what it will take to increase their earnings. Finally, it presents a road map for financing the poverty and development agenda.
The Composition of Growth Matters for Poverty Alleviation
The Composition of Growth Matters for Poverty Alleviation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Composition of Growth Matters for Poverty Alleviation write by Norman Loayza. This book was released on 2006. The Composition of Growth Matters for Poverty Alleviation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper contributes to explain the cross-country heterogeneity of the poverty response to changes in economic growth. It does so by focusing on the structure of output growth. The paper presents a two-sector theoretical model that clarifies the mechanism through which the sectoral composition of growth and associated labor intensity can affect workers' wages and, thus, poverty alleviation. Then in presents cross-country empirical evidence that analyzes first, the differential poverty-reducing impact of sectoral growth at various levels of disaggregation, and the role of unskilled labor intensity in such differential impact. The paper finds evidence that not only the size of economic growth but also its composition matters for poverty alleviation, with the largest contributuons from labor-intensive sectors (such as agriculture, construction, and manufacturing). The results are robust to the influence of outliers, alternative explanations, and various poverty measures.
ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction
ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction write by Edith Ofwona Adera. This book was released on 2014. ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction' presents a conceptual framework to analyse how poverty dynamics change over time and to shed light on whether ICT access benefits the poor as well as the not-so-poor. Essential reading for policymakers, researchers, and academics in international development or ICT for development.
Links Between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: A Survey
Links Between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: A Survey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Links Between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: A Survey write by Ms. Valerie Cerra. This book was released on 2021-03-12. Links Between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: A Survey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is there a tradeoff between raising growth and reducing inequality and poverty? This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the complex links between growth, inequality, and poverty, with causation going in both directions. The evidence suggests that growth can be effective in reducing poverty, but its impact on inequality is ambiguous and depends on the underlying sources of growth. The impact of poverty and inequality on growth is likewise ambiguous, as several channels mediate the relationship. But most plausible mechanisms suggest that poverty and inequality reduce growth, at least in the long run. Policies play a role in shaping these relationships and those designed to improve equality of opportunity can simultaneously improve inclusiveness and growth.
