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In the discussions of trading, unemployment and income distribution inequality, this question is raised by economists that in economic development of developing and developed countries, which policy is necessary in the first stage. Is trading liberalization the pre-requirement of transfer from a close economy to a relative open economy and is it necessary for the developed economy compared to o...

C. Gopalan ery, malnutrition, limited somatic functional and mental development even for future generations. This is not compatible with the aim of helping the poor to get out of the vicious cycle of poverty. The "model" from the industrially developed countries has too many imperfections and is not universally acceptable. The definition of the exact characteristics and the range of standards f...

Correspondence address: East-West Center, Research Program Population and Health Studies 1601 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96848-1601, USA Telephone: (808) 944-7482 Fax: (808) 944-7490 E-mail: [email protected] Internet site: www.ewc.hawaii.edu developing economies of East and Southeast Asia, increasing financial hardship for the poor. Although South Asia did not suffer to the same extent f...

This paper discusses the concepts and measures of chronic poverty and the available evidence in relation to chronic and transient poverty. Most evidence is based on panel data and monetary concepts of poverty, and this paper argues that it will be important in future work to consider a wider range of sources and dimensions. Currently available survey evidence suggests that poverty is much more ...

T he effects of the crises of 1997–99, from East Asia to Russia and Brazil, persist in many aspects. In most developing countries growth remains weak and well below precrisis trends. Social dislocations are severe, and have increased not only in Asia but also in other affected countries. Progress in poverty reduction has stalled in the developing world at the end of the 1990s, and the number of...

A review of English-language journals published since 1990 and three global mental health reports identified 11 community studies on the association between poverty and common mental disorders in six low- and middle-income countries. Most studies showed an association between indicators of poverty and the risk of mental disorders, the most consistent association being with low levels of educati...

One of the International Development Targets agreed by the UN Social Summit in 1995 is to halve the 1990 incidence of dollar-a-day poverty in developing and transitional countries by 2015. This note estimates progress towards that target. If China, each country in South Asia, and each other region changes incidence in 1998-2015 at the same rate as in 1990-98, then overall dollar poverty inciden...

agriculture has a key role to play in reducing poverty and hunger in many developing countries. about 75% of the world's poor live in rural areas and most are dependent on agriculture and related activities in the rural economy. for this reason the benefits for developing countries’ farmers have been shown to be substantial if oecd member countries reformed their agricultural policies. the issu...