"This book focuses on two domains: the measurement of absolute consumption poverty and a first-order dominance approach to multidimensional welfare analysis. In each domain, it provides a series of computer codes designed to facilitate analysis by allowing the analyst to start from a flexible...

Much of the information relevant to policy formulation for industrial development is held by the private sector, not by public officials. There is therefore fairly broad agreement in the development literature that some form of structured engagement - often referred to as close or strategic...

"Many developing countries--Viet Nam included--continue to struggle to raise incomes per capita. A common feature of the growth and development process is a fundamental change in the pattern of economic activity, as households reallocate labour from traditional agriculture to more productive...

This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in Latin America in the 2000s. Our analysis answers the following broad questions: Has economic growth resulted in gains in standards of living and reductions in poverty via...

1. Capitalism and family farming -- 2. Structural transformation and farming -- 3. Urbanization and agrarian change : a view from the margins / Srilata Sircar -- 4. What you might like to know about regression -- 5. Drivers of agrarian transformation -- 6. Volatility in land distribution -- 7....

Preface -- Employment policy in the global and national context -- Re-thinking employment in in the Indian economy : inclusive growth and well-being / Elizabeth Hill -- Employment policy in the international development agenda and its relevance in India / Catherine Saget -- Judicial production...

1. Introduction -- 2. Developing country growth and the commodity terms of trade -- 3. The statistical properites of commodity prices -- 4. Country case studies : primary commodities and economic development -- 5. Conclusion : commodity dependence in developing countries: economic destiny or...