What are the poverty reduction goals of the European development cooperation agencies? This book examines the … credibility of their actual record in terms of their commitment and approaches to poverty reduction. The poverty impact of their …

West Bengal, India -- 13. Poverty in Best Bengal: a review of recent performance and programmes -- 14. The Impact of …This book addresses topical development issues in India, ranging from land acquisition, poverty alleviation programs … poverty alleviation. The chapters reflect on a number of development issues which were of concern for India in the recent past …

Introduction -- Foreign Assistance: Substance and Practice -- Soviet Aid to China -- Multilateral Foreign Aid to China … After 1979 -- Bilateral Aid to China Since 1979 -- Aid in China and NGOs. …Foreign aid has connected China and the international community through many channels, and created new types of strong …

This book pursues both narrative and analytic approaches to better understand China’s spatial economic development and … its implications for Tibet. Accordingly, this book focuses on Tibet – an autonomous region in the far west of China – as … boundary conditions. China’s great diversity in terms of physical geography, resource endowment, political economy, and …

Research on the development between China and Africa as well as emerging national economies in the BRICs group. Topics include …

Loans from international financial institutions (IFI loans) to China were a very important beginning to China’s opening … to the outside world. This book represents the first comprehensive study done in China to evaluate the overall … performance of IFI assistance to China from 1981 to 2002. It analyzes the efficiency of international assistance in contributing …

Muslim minorities in China and India form only a small fraction of their respective populations, yet as they …