After a brief historical review of studies in poverty, the author explores some key conceptual issues in defining poverty. He then defines and focuses on selected poverty measures and discusses the characteristics of the poor with special reference to some Asian countries, the USA and the U.K....

The world economy has been undergoing rapid structural transformation for the last three decades. The service sector has come to play an increasingly important role in this transformation. The author reviews some important issues regarding trade in services in Asian developing economies. After...

Der Autor untersucht die Hintergründe der Migration asiatischer Arbeiter im Vorderen Orient. Die Geldüberweisungen dieser Arbeiter in ihre Heimatländer spielen eine wichtige Rolle bei der Entwicklung der Wirtschaft des Heimatlandes. Trotzdem könnte das Überweisungskontingent noch erheblich...

Recent years have seen the emergence of a considerable volume of literature on governance and its role in economic and social development of a country. This paper provides a critical review of the literature. This review brings into the open a number of serious conceptual, measurement, and data...

This paper provides an extensive review of growth, inequality and poverty reduction in the East Asian miracle economies. This review suggests that the basic impetus for poverty reduction was robust economic growth, which was fostered by a conducive policy and institutional framework. This...

This paper provides a critical review of the burgeoning literature on social capital, highlighting a number of serious conceptual and empirical problems associated with this literature. First, the concept of social capital remains largely elusive, with many different ideas attached to it. This...