Changing Face Of Poverty And Globalisation

Year:2002,Binding:Hardcover,Pages:250,Language:English, Description:- , About The Author:- G.P. Isser, former IFS-member and ambassador.Researcher in Developmental Economics., Contents:- Contents # Preface : Acknowledgment : Introduction : Emerging Perspectives on Poverty : Response of Economists : Changing Face of Poverty: Case Studies Malaysia, Indonesia, republic of Korea, Sari Lanka, Botswana, Chile Thailand Costa Rica : Breaking Vicious Circle of Poverty in Economies Trapped in the Low Level-income-Equilibrium : Indian Experience in Poverty alleviation Priority Tasks Ahead: Employment generation Human and Social Development : An Attack on Poverty responding to globalisation and Emerging Challenges : Anesures. U.N. Millennium Declaration-Development and Poverty-Eradication : Human Needs: Global Targets and Timetables : Africa Lags Behind and the Gap is Widening : List of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) : Incidence of Poverty in Selected Least Development Countries (LDCs) : Selectd Economic and Social Indicators for the LDCs and other DCs : LDCs Real GDP and Per Capita GPD Growth Rates, 1980-1990 Vs 1990-1998 per cent : Africa Lags Behind and the Gap is Widening : Annual Average Growth of Primary commodity Prices of Direct relevance to the LDCs (per cent) : External Resource Gap as Share of Investment, Government Expenditure, Government Consumption Expenditure and GDP in the LDS and other DCs, 1980-1998 : LDCs : Long-term Net Capital Inflow by Type of Flow, and Aggregate Net Transfers, 1988-1998 (in million dollars) : Debt Service Payments and Social Sector Expenditures in Selected LDCs, 1995-2002 : Progress of the LDCs in Meeting Selected International Development Goals : How Long will the LDCsTake to Reach $900 Per Capita Income Levels if Current Trends Persist : International Development Goals : Relevant Extracts from Action Programmed Regarding Increasing Trade of LDCs : Relevant Extracts from action Programmed Regarding Building Human and Institutional Capacities : Estimates of Poverty : Percentage Variation in Persons below Poverty Line in Total Population (1993-1994 over 1983) : State-wise per cent of the Persons Working as Casual Labourers to all Workers in Rural India : Growth Rates of Employment in Organised Sector (per cent) : Elasticity of Employment to GDP : Growth of Employment by Sectors : Gross Enrolment Ratio in Classes I-V and VI-VIII for Major States