Spatial disparities in human development
Subtitle: perspectives from Asia
By: edited by Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables, and Guanghua Wan.
Contributors: Kanbur, S. M. Ravi.; Venables, Anthony.; Wan, Guang Hua.
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Poor -- Asia -- Case studies.; Income distribution -- Asia -- Case studies.; Equality -- Asia.; Asia -- Economic conditions -- 1945- -- Regional disparities.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spatial disparities in human development : an overview of the Asian evidence / Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables and Guanghua Wan; title: Methodological issues; title: Poverty mapping with aggregate census data : what is the loss in precision? / Nicholas Minot and Bob Baulch; title: A decomposition analysis of regional poverty in Russia / Stanislav Kolenikov and Anthony Shorrocks; title: Trade liberalization and spatial inequality : a methodological innovation in Vietnamese perspective / Henning Tarp Jensen and Finn Tarp; title: Inequality in Asia; title: Fifty years of regional inequality in China : a journey through central planning, reform and openness / Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang; title: Income inequality in rural China : regression-based decomposition using household data / Guanghua Wan and Zhangyue Zhou; title: Divergent means and convergent inequality of incomes among the provinces and cities of urban China / John Knight, Li Shi and Zhao Renwei; title: Industrial location and spatial inequality : theory and evidence from India / Somik V. Lall and Sanjoy Chakravorty; title: Spatial horizontal inequality and the maoist insurgency in Nepal / S. Mansoob Murshed and Scott Gates; title: Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines : an exploratory analysis / Arsenio M. Balisacan and Nobuhiko Fuwa; title: Spatial inequality and development in Central Asia / Kathryn Anderson and Richard Pomfret; title: Poverty in Asia; title: Decomposing spatial differences in poverty in India / Shatakshee Dhongde; title: Commune-level estimation of poverty measures and its application in Cambodia / Tomoki Fujii.