Ravi Kanbur
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The writings highlight the experiences of members of a group who began living and working with the families of women who earn their living in the informal sector from different places globally: Ahmadabad in Gujarat, India, Durban, South Africa and Oaxaca, Mexico. With the aim of examining issues on the informal sector, poverty, gender and economic, each member of the group here pours forth an account of the personal impact the exposure had on him/her and on the ...
Poverty analysis has been a battleground between qualitative and quantitative approaches. Practitioners of each approach seem to live in a world of their own, with little interaction with each other. But this state of affairs is changing. It is increasingly recognized that policy design for attacking poverty requires an approach that makes best use of the relative strengths of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools, applied to the situation at hand. This ...
Spatial disparities are a measure of the unequal distribution of income, wealth, power and resources between peoples in different locations. This book focuses on issues directly related to the Millennium Development Goals including Conflict, poverty, and the causes and consequences of inequality. It applies the latest research techniques including regression-based decomposition poverty decomposition and computable general equilibrium models.
The concepts of formal and information remain central to the theory and practice of development more than half a century after they were introduced into the debate. They help structure the way that statistical services collect data on the economies of developing countries, the development of theoretical and empirical analysis, and most important, the formulation and implementation of policy. This volume brings together a significant new collection of studies on ...
Poverty analysis has been a battleground between qualitative and quantitative approaches. This volume brings together the world leaders in analysis from both sides of the divide to push the dialogue forward.Practitioners of each approach seem to live in a world of their own, with little interaction with each other.But this state of affairs is changing. It is increasingly recognized that policy design for attacking poverty requires an approach that makes best use ...
Amartya Sen made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a tolerant and democratic polity. This argumentative Indian has made the case for the poorest of the poor, and for plurality in cultural perspective. It is not surprising that he has won the highest ...