Rural Development and Poverty in South Asia
Author: Syed Mohammad Naseem
Publisher: New York : United Nations
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Syed Mohammad Naseem
Publisher: New York : United Nations
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United Nations
Publisher: UN
Published: 2004-06-11
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9789211203233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Syed M. Naseem
Publisher:
Published: 2004-06-17
Total Pages: 59
ISBN-13: 9780119895414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For the predominantly agricultural economies of South Asia rural development is the core issue of development. Unfortunately in the rush to achieve other political and economic objectives, it has received a generally low priority in national development. As a result, South Asian rural societies have suffered a steady erosion in their living conditions and productive infrastructure, as evidenced by the high incidence of poverty. There has, as a result, been a steady outward movement of resources from the rural communities and political pressure has been building to redress the resultant imbalance.
Author: Deepa Narayan-Parker
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 082136877X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work is one of the few books on empowerment that combines a conceptual framework with a practical framework and distills the key lessons without suggesting magic bullets. Written by program champions themselves the
Author: Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780195475012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre's 2006 Report on poverty in South Asia underlines the imperative of focusing on alleviating poverty in order to sustain the current economic growth in the region.
Author: Inderjit Singh
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poverty is the grim reality for some 400 million people - mostly small farmers and agricultural laborers - in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. To remedy the problem, South Asian governments and international agencies have focused on raising the productivity of small farms and increasing opportunities for rural employment. This strategy, however, has long been criticized for doing the poor more harm than good. The author challenges that pessimistic view by critically reviewing a wealth of evidence from recent academic literature and the World Bank's operational experience. He shows that rapid agricultural growth has benefited all classes of the poor and that the "great ascent" from poverty to a more materially rewarding life has begun. A variety of programs intended to help the poor directly are examined in detail. Research, extension, and training activities are evaluated for their effectiveness in promoting the adoption of high-yielding varieties of cereal, spreading new farming technology, encouraging multiple cropping, and increasing the cultivation of high-value crops. The author also considers programs in dairying, poultry farming, commercial fishing, and forestry and argues that policymakers have neglected these potentially profitable activities. Finally, he discusses the dismal failure of land reforms in reducing poverty.
Author: Jonathan Rigg
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Revisiting Rural Places, scholars return to sites of their earlier research in Southeast Asia to examine how the rapid pace of change in the countryside affected places, spaces and people that they originally studied decades ago. Each of the 14 core chapters is organized around a change that, based on broader trends, the authors did not anticipate: a new longhouse in Sarawak, the urban forests of Java, the assertion of an ethnic minority identity in Northern Thailand, the re-shaping of class relations and identities in the Philippines, and the uncontested sell-off of farmland to cacao entrepreneurs in Sulawesi. These outcomes pose a challenge to conventional understandings of how the countryside is being re-shaped, and to what effect. The accounts in this volume map out diverse pathways to poverty or prosperity. Families who seemed trapped in poverty decades ago have prospered owing to non-farm and educational opportunities. Others have unexpectedly been thrust into relative deprivation by industrial agriculture, rural industrialization, or destructive natural resource extraction. The breadth of the material makes this unique and exceptionally rich account of rural change a valuable classroom tool as well as an important source of information for a broad spectrum of institutions and other stakeholders, from the World Bank to NGOs and rural activists.
Author: Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Papers, chiefly in relation to India and Bangladesh.