This paper examines Indonesia's industrialization performance and policies, including its latecomer status, its …

This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia's development prospects. This pessimism … Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …

preparation if poverty is to be taken more seriously by donors. …

nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of … differing size. The paper begins with certain problems attending the measurement of poverty when the overall population size is … Parfit's quest for a satisfactory theory of wellbeing and the economist's quest for a satisfactory measure of poverty …

poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

engaging children in child labour, can lock households in a low-income equilibrium or poverty trap. Provided that covariate …