Reducing Rural Poverty in Asia
Subtitle: Challenges And Opportunities for Microenterprises And Public Employment Schemes (Global Food & Nutrition Security) (Global Food & Nutrition Security)
Publisher: Food Products Press
Published: March 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781560223009
Subjects: Development studies; Rural communities; Poverty; Economics - Macroeconomics; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Sociology; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Economic assistance, Domestic; Labor; ASIA; Government policy; Rural poor
First sentence: Poverty is multidimensional; it encompasses not only what is called income poverty, i.e., deprivation of income/consumption such as the satisfaction of minimum level of food and other basic needs, but also limited access to health, nutrition, and education services, which aggravates the impact of income poverty, resulting in child mortality, short life expectancy, and illiteracy.