Spatial disparities in human development: perspectives from Asia/ edited by Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables, and Guanghua Wan.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi: Bookwell, 2006Description: xxii, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9280811223Subject(s): Asia | Economic history--Regional disparities | Income distribution | Poor | EqualityDDC classification: 339.22095Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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List of figures vii
List of tables ix
List of contributors xiv
Foreword xvii
Anthony Shorrocks
Acknowledgements xix
List of abbreviations xxi
1 Spatial disparities in human development: An overview of the Asian evidence 1
Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables and Guanghua Wan
Part I: Methodological issues 7
2 Poverty mapping with aggregate census data: What is the loss in precision? 9
Nicholas Minot and Bob Baulch
3 A decomposition analysis of regional poverty in Russia 36
Stanislav Kolenikov and Anthony Shorrocks
4 Trade liberalization and spatial inequality: A methodological innovation in Vietnamese perspective 64
Henning Tarp Jensen and Finn Tarp
Part II: Inequality in Asia 87
5 Fifty years of regional inequality in China: A journey through central planning, reform and openness 89
Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang
6 Income inequality in rural China: Regression-based decomposition using household data 115
Guanghua Wan and Zhangyue Zhou
7 Divergent means and convergent inequality of incomes among the provinces and cities of urban China 133
John Knight, Li Shi and Zhao Renwei
8 Industrial location and spatial inequality: Theory and evidence from India 158
Somik V. Lall and Sanjoy Chakravorty
9 Spatial horizontal inequality and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal 188
S. Mansoob Murshed and Scott Gates
10 Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines: An exploratory analysis 207
Arsenio M. Balisacan and Nobuhiko Fuwa
11 Spatial inequality and development in central Asia 233
Kathryn Anderson and Richard Pomfret
Part III: Poverty in Asia 271
12 Decomposing spatial differences in poverty in India 273
Shatakshee Dhongde
13 Commune-level estimation of poverty measures and its application in Cambodia 289
Tomoki Fujii
Index 315
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