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Subject(s)

• Rural poor—Asia [Browse]
• Rural poor—Africa [Browse]
• Households—Economic aspects—Asia [Browse]
• Households—Economic aspects—Africa [Browse]
• Education, Rural—Asia [Browse]
• Education, Rural—Africa [Browse]

Related name

• Otsuka, Keijiro [Browse]
• Estudillo, Jonna P. [Browse]
• Sawada, Yasuyuki, 1967- [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in development economics ; 68. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in development economics ; 68 [More in this series]

Summary note

Although there is much interest in poverty reduction, there are few agreed upon strategies to effectively reduce poverty. In this new book, the editors have gathered together various evidences on poverty dynamics, based on panel data from the last few decades in the Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and Tamil Nadu in India, compared with more recent data from sub-Saharan Africa. The major finding of this research project is that rural households in sub-Saharan African are beginning to experience the same pattern of structural change in income composition and poverty reduction that Asian hou

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-227) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: An overview and conceptual framework; 2 Income dynamics, schooling investment, and poverty reduction in Philippine villages, 1985-2004; 3 Human capital investment and poverty reduction over generations: A case from the rural Philippines, 1979-2003; 4 Income dynamics, schooling investment, and poverty reduction in Thai villages, 1987-2004; 5 Income dynamics, schooling investments, and poverty reduction in Bangladesh, 1988-2004
• 6 Income dynamics and schooling investments in Tamil Nadu, India, 1971-2003: Changing roles of land and human capital7 Role of nonfarm income and education in reducing poverty: Evidence from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda; 8 Determinants of household income and schooling investments in rice-growing provinces in Mozambique, 2002-5; 9 Toward a new paradigm of farm and nonfarm linkages in economic development; References; Index

ISBN

• 1-134-01943-2
• 1-281-89979-8
• 9786611899790
• 0-203-88505-8

OCLC

476200143

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