Spatial Disparities in Human Development : Perspectives from Asia

Ravi Kanbur; Anthony J Venables and Guanghua Wan

ISBN 10: 8189640100 / ISBN 13: 9788189640101

Published by Bookwell, New Delhi, 2006

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Contents Foreword. 1. Spatial disparities in human development an overview of the Asian evidence/Ravi Kanbur Anthony J. Venables and Guanghua Wan. I. Methodological issues 2. Poverty mapping with aggregate census data what is the loss in precision/Nicholas Minot and Bob Baulch. 3. A decomposition analysis of regional poverty in Russia/Stanislav Kolenikov and Anthony Shorrocks. 4. Trade liberalization and spatial inequality a methodological innovation in Vietnamese perspective/Henning Tarp Jensen and Finn Tarp. II. Inequality in Asia 5. Fifty years of regional inequality in China a journey through central planning reform and openness/Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang. 6. Income inequality in rural China regression based decomposition using household data/Guanghua Wan and Zhangyue Zhou. 7. Divergent means and convergent inequality of incomes among the provinces and cities of urban China/John Knight Li Shi and Zhao Renwei. 8. Industrial location and spatial inequality theory and evidence from India/Somik V. Lall and Sanjoy Chakravorty. 9. Spatial horizontal inequality and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal/S. Mansoob Murshed and Scott Gates. 10. Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines an exploratory analysis/Arsenio M. Balisacan and Nobuhiko Fuwa. 11. Spatial inequality and development in central Asia/Kathryn H. Anderson and Richard Pomfret. III. Poverty in Asia 12. Decomposing spatial differences in poverty in India/Shatakshee Dhongde. 13. Commune level estimation of poverty measures and its application in Cambodia/Tomoki Fujii. Index. Spatial disparities are a measure of the unequal distribution of income wealth power and resources between peoples in different locations. This book focuses on issues directly related to the millennium development goals including conflict poverty and the causes and consequences of inequality. It applies the latest research techniques including regression based decomposition poverty decomposition and computable general equilibrium models. 322 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spatial Disparities in Human Development : Perspectives from Asia
• Publisher: Bookwell, New Delhi
• Publication Date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 8189640100
• ISBN 13: 9788189640101
• Binding: Hardbound
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: As New

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Explores whether the creation of a L20 is a feasible possibility for the international community. This book offers thematic and geographic arguments in favour of the L20, with a particular emphasis on the larger role that it could play on bringing about reform of the global economic system.