Strategies for Alleviating Poverty in Rural Asia (Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies Dhaka

Strategies for Alleviating Poverty in Rural Asia (Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies Dhaka - ILO, 1985, 346 p.)

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Preface

Acknowledgements

PART ONE: AN OVERVIEW

Strategies for Alleviating Poverty in Rural Asia, by Rizwanul Islam and Eddy Lee

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1. The Background: A Summary of Trends in Rural Poverty in Selected Asian Countries

2. Alternative Strategies for Poverty Alleviation

3. The State and Poverty Alleviation

4. An Overview of Selected Anti-Poverty Policies in Rural Asia

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Land policies

Policies for strengthening the asset-base and increasing the productivity of the poor

Employment creation schemes

Other target group oriented programmes

PART TWO: AN ANALYSIS

Rural Poverty in Asia: Analysis and Policy Alternatives, by Keith Griffin

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Underdevelopment in an Historical Context

Domestic Class Structures and the State

The State and Domestic Policy

Policy Approaches

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The balance of political power

The distribution of productive assets

The distribution of the flow of income

The pattern of investment

PART THREE: COUNTRY CASE STUDIES

An Evaluation of Selected Policies and Programmes for the Alleviation of Rural Poverty in Bangladesh, by Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad and Mahabub Hossain

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1. Basic Features of the Bangladesh Economy

2. Absolute Rural Poverty in Bangladesh - Incidence and Causes2

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2.1 Incidence

2.2 Causes

3. Anti-Poverty Policies

3.1 An overview

3.2 The food for work programme

3.3 The Grameen bank1

4. Concluding Remarks

An Evaluation of Policies and Programmes for the Alleviation of Rural Poverty in India, by D. Bandyopadhyay

1. An Overview of the Situation Regarding Poverty and Income Distribution

2. General Approach towards Poverty Alleviation in the Sixth Five Year Plan.

3. Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP): A Programme for Income Generation through Asset Endowment and Skill Formation

4. Works Programme for the Creation of Supplementary Employment Opportunities: National Rural Employment Programme (NREP)

5. Local Level Administrative Arrangements for the Implementation of Anti-Poverty Programmes.

6. Role of Organisations of Rural Poor in Promoting Anti-Poverty Programme

Anti-Poverty Policies in Rural Nepal, by Mahesh Banskota

1. Introduction

2. Dimensions of Rural Poverty

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2.1 Food availability and consumption

2.2 Income levels

2.3 Employment levels

2.4 Inequality

2.5 Consumer durables

3. Anti-Poverty Targets and Policies: An Overview

4. The Small Farmer Development Programme

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4.1 Borrowing and repayment

4.2 Assets and income

4.3 Access to food

4.4 Problems and policy implications

Rural Poverty and Anti-Poverty Policies in Pakistan, by M. Shaukat Ali

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1. Some Basic Facts about Rural Pakistan

2. Rural Poverty

3. Anti-Poverty Policies

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3.1 Land reforms

3.2 Rural development programmes

4. Zakat and Ushr

5. Conclusions

Rural Poverty and Operation Land Transfer in the Philippines, by Mahar Mangahas

1. Economic Policy and the Rural Setting

2. Techniques of Poverty Monitoring

2.1 Poverty as undernutrition

2.2 Poverty as inadequate purchasing power: DAP and World Bank approaches

2.3 People’s perception of poverty

3. Operation Land Transfer and Poverty Alleviation

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3.1 Coverage of operation land transfer

3.2 Intentions of presidential decree no. 27

3.3 Land reform and agricultural productivity

3.4 Operation land transfer and farm income

3.5 Monitoring the benefits from OLT: headcount

3.6 Monitoring the benefits from OLT: valuation

3.7 On the new rural stratification

4. Concluding Remarks

An Evaluation of Policies and Programmes for the Alleviation of Poverty in Sri Lanka, by Piyasiri Wickramasekara

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1. Profile of poverty in Sri Lanka

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1.1 Trends in absolute poverty

1.2 Relative poverty

2. Overview of Anti-poverty Policies

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2.1 Land policies

2.2 District integrated rural development programme

2.3 Target group oriented programmes

2.4 General minimum needs programmes

3. Evaluation of Selected Anti-poverty Programmes

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3.1 The food subsidy and the rice ration scheme

3.2 The food stamp scheme

4. Concluding Observations

PART FOUR: PROCEEDINGS OF A REGIONAL SEMINAR

Proceedings of the Regional Seminar on Monitoring Poverty and Anti-Poverty Policies in Rural Asia, 7-9 April 1984, Dhaka, Bangladesh

ANNEX - List of Participants

BACK COVER

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Edited by
Rizwanul Islam


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First published April 1985
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