Reducing Rural Poverty in Asia
Subtitle: Challenges And Opportunities for Microenterprises And Public Employment Schemes
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Food Products Press
Published: March 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781560223016
Subjects: Development studies; Poverty; Rural communities; Personal Memoirs; Economics - Macroeconomics; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Sociology; 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.