POVERTY, POLICY REFORMS FOR RESOURCE-USE AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY: NEGLECTED ISSUES

Supporting Policy and Institutional Reforms for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Line

Since the adoption of the Doi Moi (renovation) policy, the Vietnamese economy has continued to register high growth in the transition to a market-oriented economy. As a result, poverty incidence decreased from 58% in 1993 to 29% in 2002. Still, a large number of people are living at the near-poverty level. As the majority of them depend on unstable income from farming, they are vulnerable to na...

Economic Policy Reforms 2015: Going for Growth

This chapter reviews the evidence on the potential effect of pro-growth structural reforms on wage dispersion and household income inequality and examines whether specific policies driving GDP growth over the past decades may have also contributed to widening inequalities. In doing so, it distinguishes between the main channels via which policies affect growth and income distribution and identi...

Economic Reforms, Poverty and Inequality in China and India

I In various writings over the years Amartya Sen has shown his acute interest in comparative performance of China and India, the two largest countries of the world, both with poor, agrarian economies and with rich, ancient civilizations. While high economic growth in both countries in the last decades has attracted a lot of attention, particularly in the international financial press, Sen's int...

Economic and policy issues of U.S. agricultural pesticide use trends.

BACKGROUND This paper discusses U.S. agricultural pesticide use trends from 1964 to 2010 based on estimates developed from USDA surveys, and the influence of economic factors, agricultural policy, and pesticide regulation on aggregate quantities and mix of pesticides used. RESULTS Synthetic organic pesticide use grew dramatically from the 1960s to the early 1980s, as farmers treated more and ...

Poverty, Inequality and Reforms Pranab Bardhan I. Reforms Growth Poverty Reduction II. Poverty and Inequality Opposition to Reforms