This book investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development. Building upon the author's work … affects rural poverty levels in developing countries. In particular the book examines what we do and do not know about risk …1. Introduction -- 2. Risk and poverty -- 3. The risk coping strategies of the rural poor -- 4. The limits to risk …

. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Jacques Silber -- 3. Concepts and measurement of vulnerability to poverty and other …Introduction / Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan -- 1. An Asian poverty line? issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- 2. A … poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R …

measurement, not only detailing broad issues but also scrutinising specific domains and aspects of poverty, such as health, energy … Handbook includes case studies that examine poverty across the globe, with a particular focus on covering Africa, China, India …"Currently, works on poverty constitute only a small part of contemporary economic research; however, the field of …

and Mathias Herr -- Current international development tools to combat poverty / Warner Woodworth -- Opportunities for … pyramid / Molly Hoyt and Eliot Jamison -- Microfranchise business models / Kirk Magleby -- Honey Care Africa / Farouk Jiwa … Services : rural telephone access for South Africa / Lisa Jones Christensen, Jennifer (Reck) Van Kirk and Brad Wood -- Scojo …

The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic …pt. 1. Productivity : definitions and methods of measurement -- pt. 2. Productivity : determinants and strategies …

1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Performance measurement in management literature -- 3. Perspectives of … practice -- 6. Measurement concepts and implications -- 7. Developing a generalizable model for measuring organizational …

This important book presents fresh thinking and new results on the measurement of sustainable development. Economic … relevant theory is presented briefly, the chief emphasis is on empirical measurement of the change in real wealth: this measure …

measurement of R&D and innovation performance …

&D activities and the measurement of their performances. The framework encompasses a set of hierarchical, interrelated levels at … which R&D evaluation and performance measurement could be undertaken. This enlightening book focuses on the single … industrial firm to study performance measurement of R&D functions, projects and individual researchers or engineers. It also …